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“Minnesota’s Oldest Weekly Newspaper” Vol. 162, No. 1

Sauk Rapids, Benton County, Minnesota 56379

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April 14, 2016

A continuation of the Frontiersman, The Free Press, Sauk Rapids Sentinel and St. Cloud Sentinel.

An unforeseen path Heinen-Kay researches

Àsh in Bahaman Islands

by ANNA SALDANA STAFF WRITER

ST. PAUL – When Justa Heinen-Kay graduated from Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in 2004, she was ready to experience the world and all it had to offer.

Following her high school career, Heinen-Kay attended the University of St. Thomas, majoring in biology.

“I’ve always been curious about why the world is the way it is and how things work,” Heinen-Kay said.

“I’m also extremely interested in Àeldwork, so this line of work seemed perfect for me.”

While at St. Thomas, Heinen-Kay met her husband, Adam, also a biologist. Although the two are in the same Àeld, Adam does work with urban agriculture and food justice issues around the Twin Cities.

“We are both very supportive of each other’s research and work. One example of his support was when our daughter, Matilda, was eight months old. I had to go to the Bahamas for a two-week Àeld study,” Heinen-Kay said. “He took care of her the whole time and let me go do the work I needed

to do.”

Following her graduation at St. Thomas, Heinen-Kay spent a year and a half working in Trinidad, doing research in the rainforest. She researched a specie of stream Àsh. Since then, working with ecology and evolution has been her passion.

Wanting to further her education, Heinen-Kay pursued her doctorate degree from North Carolina State University. She completed that degree last month. During her schooling, Heinen-Kay focused her research on the Bahamas mosquitoÀsh. These Àsh live in blue holes across Andros Island in the Bahamas.

Blue holes are limestone sinkhole-like caves which have Àlled with water. These holes typically range from 100-200 yards in diameter and 200 yards deep.

“MosquitoÀsh are native to blue hole environments. It is the ideal system to be able to answer the questions we have about how predation can inÁuence evolution in prey species,” Heinen-Kay said.

Throughout her research, Heinen-Kay was focused on the blue hole system as a whole and how different aspects of the environment affect the Bahamas mosquitoÀsh.

“It’s a very unique envi-

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As a biologist, Justa Heinen-Kay, 2004 Sauk Rapids-Rice High School graduate, researches the Bahamas’ mosquitoÀsh.

ronment. What’s really unique with these Àsh is that sometimes, they live in the blue holes by themselves with no potential predators, but in other blue holes, they have a particular species of predator Àsh,” Heinen-Kay said.

“We use both environments for research and often make comparisons between the two.

There’s nowhere else in the

world that has this perfect of a set up, where you can isolate this one factor, presence or absence of predatory Àsh, to test how it inÁuences the course of evolution.”

After completing this degree, Heinen-Kay will be working in a post-doctoral research position at the University of Minnesota.

“I’m in this awkward

time where I’ve obtained my PhD, but am not quite qualiÀed to get a job as a professor, which is my next goal.

This research position will help me gain more research experience,” Heinen-Kay said.

During this position, Heinen-Kay will be re-

Heinen-Kay continued on pg. 2

Four suffer injuries in single car accidents

WATAB TOWNSHIP— Slick conditions led to two Highway 10 accidents on the morning of April 8.

Traveling southbound at approximately 8:21 a.m. on Highway 10, Karen Laughlin, 57 of Perham, lost control of her vehicle and rolled after tapping her brakes to slow for another crash. Laughlin and passengers Johann Muff, 44 of New York Mills, and Denise Sherman, 58 of Ottertail, were all transported by ambulance with non life-threatening injuries.

Earlier that morning a similar accident took place in the northbound lanes of Highway 10. At 6:40 a.m. Kathleen Duresky, 69 of St. Paul was traveling north on Highway 10 at the intersection of 85th Street NW, when she lost control and went into the center median where the vehicle rolled and landed in the southbound lanes. Duresky was transported by ambulance with non life-threatening injuries. Her passenger, Thomas Nagel, 54 of St. Paul, suffered no apparent injuries in the crash.

Minnesota State Patrol was assisted by the Benton County Sheriff’s OfÀce and the Gold Cross Ambulance in both accidents.

Former clerk sentenced A bittersweet ending

by NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER

FOLEY — After more than a year since former Rice city clerk M a r i e We i n a n d admitted to taking m o n e y from the Marie Weinand city, her case has come to a close. Weinand was sentenced on April 8 after tendering a guilty plea in exchange for an amended charge of gross misdemeanor theft.

Weinand was convicted of gross misdemeanor theft and will serve 15 days in the Benton County jail and was ordered to perform a 15-day equivalent (120 hours) of community service within six months.

The $2,200 restitution, which Weinand had already fulÀlled, will be sent to the city of Rice.

Although Weinand’s attorney disagreed with the request for a letter of apology, Weinand will

be required to comply.

“I don’t think it is meant to humiliate you,” said Judge Robert Raupp. “I think it’s an apology you owe to the community you stole from.”

When asked if she had anything to say, Weinand replied, “I’m sorry for what I did.

I just want to put this all behind me and move on.”

In addition to the terms stated above, Weinand will serve two years probation, must remain law abiding, medication compliant and is ordered to have no contact with Rice City Hall or the employees therein.

Weinand — who had been the treasurer and clerk for the city of Rice — stated in March 2015 she had taken $2,200 from the city on two separate occasions sometime in 2014.

An audit was performed by Schlenner, Wenner and Company of the 2014 books for the city of Rice. The Àrm found Weinand had written out an extra payroll check to herself.

Records show Weinand received 27 paychecks for the 26 pay periods during 2014.

Aksamit retires from Àrearm safety instruction after 26 years

by ANNA SALDANA STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS – The Sauk Rapids Firearms Safety instructors are a committed and experienced group of individuals. Their combined experience totals 376 years, but on March 31, they lost 26 years when Ron Aksamit retired.

“I’ve been interested in Àrearm safety since I took the course with my son when he was 12,” Aksamit said.

“Three years later, our youngest son took the training, so I sat through the course with him. At the training, they asked if any of the adults in the room wanted to volunteer to be an instructor. I immediately knew it was for me.”

After volunteering Aksamit went to Foley to receive his certiÀcation. Several other people decided to be-

come instructors at that time as well.

Since Aksamit signed on, the program hasn’t lacked instructors. He credits the others for instilling a passion and commitment to the students in the class, particularly the kids.

“I really wanted to help the other instructors, but the number one goal is to help kids get off on the right foot in life. Prior to being a Àrearm safety instructor, my wife, Barb, and I took care of Cub Scouts for Àve years,” Aksamit said. “I’ve always been extremely dedicated to kids and their education.”

When their sons were no longer involved in Cub Scouts, along came Àrearm safety.

Over the past 26 years, Aksamit has seen the program

Aksamit continued on pg. 5

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Ron Aksamit retired as a Àrearm safety instructor on March 31. His fellow instructors surprised him with this plaque following the Ànal class.

Deadly storm remembered 130 years later

by NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS – At 4 p.m. on April 14, 1886 Minnesota’s deadliest tornado struck the city of Sauk Rapids and changed the course of history.

Contrary to popular belief, St. Cloud had already surpassed the city of Sauk Rapids in terms of population, but the town had been the main business district for the area, which laid the perception that, had the twister not touched the soils of this city, Sauk Rapids would be the hub that St. Cloud is today.

The weather was unusually sultry for a Minnesota April. But no one expected the devastation which was

about to touch their lives.

The estimated F4 tornado touched down that afternoon for the Àrst time at North Star cemetery, one mile southwest of St. Cloud on what today is Cooper Avenue South. Traveling northeast at a speed up to 200 mph, with a maximum half mile radius, the storm swept through the railyards, entered the river and followed it north until swinging itself directly into downtown Sauk Rapids, taking out the town’s bridge, the Stanton Flour Mill, the Northern PaciÀc depot, over 100 commercial and public buildings and much more.

“It is not any one section of Sauk Rapids that is gone; it

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Minnesota Severe Weather Awareness Week is held April 11-15. Statewide tornado drills will be held Thursday, April 14 at 1:45 and 6:55 p.m. Please take this opportunity to practice safety plans with families as weather is unpredictable.

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Ruins of the Sauk Rapids bridge are pictured after the 1886 tornado which devastated parts of St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, and areas surrounding Rice and Buckman.

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Canine unit receives donations

by NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS — Over $6,000 was donated to the Sauk Rapids Police Department at Monday’s council meeting to offset the costs of the recently purchased canine “Thunder” The Metro Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association donated a total of $6,600 to the program which was received through their own donations from Andrew Hovanes, Mark WM Campbell, the Granite City Lumberjacks, the Minnesota Fishing Museum and the St. Cloud Metro Lions, Sauk Rapids Lions and St. Cloud Optimist clubs. In addition, Michael and Mary Kittridge also donated $100.

In other council news: Approved and authorized a gambling permit for the Sauk Rapids Sportsmen’s Club to be used at Benton Station.

Approved an amendment to the liquor licensing code to allow “brew pub” and ”tap room” liquor licenses for onsale, off-sale and Sunday sales of malt liquor and amended Sunday on-sale hours in accordance with Minnesota state law.

Announced the city compost site would open April 16.

The site is open Saturdays 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Mondays 3 7 p.m., Wednesdays noon to 7 p.m. Clean Sweep will be held from April 27 through April 30. The compost site will be open two additional days during this week, Thursday and Friday from noon to 7 p.m.

Reminded the public of the Citizen of the Year announcement and reception at 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 25. The person will be recognized at the council meeting following the reception.

Announced the second annual Granite City Classic disc golf tournament will take place on June 25 at Mayhew Creek Park. The tournament is sanctioned by the Pro Disc Golf Association and is played over a two-day period at three locations (Millstream Park, St. Joseph and Hidden Lake, St. Augusta.) The event is expected to draw 180 people.

Announced that current work on Eighth Street North is not related to the city, but rather Xcel Energy which has been making updates, gambling on the fact that the city’s road construction plans will go through.

On the move

by NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS — The Benton Stearns Education District No. 6383 recently paired with the St. Cloud Technical Community College and St. Cloud Metro Lions to provide their students with the experience to ride on specially adapted, batteryoperated cars. Five cars made their debut as part of The Mobility Project’s “Spring Cruising Event” at Hillside School in Sauk Rapids April 7—each with different mobility features.

“They are all a little PHOTOS BY NATASHA BARBER

Ayla Kitzmann, 5, of Sauk Rapids, drives down the hallway April 7 at Hillside School.

Thanks to a partnership between the Benton Stearns Education District, St. Cloud Technical and Community College and St. Cloud Metro Lions, Kitzmann was able to enjoy her Àrst independent ride in an adapted batteryoperated vehicle.

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The project was inspired by the University of Delaware’s Go Baby Go project whose goal is to make mobility accessible to all children. It began with the purchase of the cars by Benton Stearns, a donation for supplies by the St. Cloud Metro Lions and the assembly by the SCTCC biomedical equipment repair students.

“We weren’t even sure we could do what they were looking for,” said second year student Sasha Rausch. “After listening to the facilitators needs and brainstorming, we decided the adaptations were absolutely doable.”

Eleven SCTCC students and their instructor Maggie Berkey volunteered their time to help with the project. During the Àrst adaptation, Dunsmoor joined the class and spoke speciÀcally of the

kinds of things Benton Stearns was looking for while assembling one vehicle for the children. She described placement of activation buttons as well as safety features the cars should contain. The class took it from there and completed the modiÀcations on the other four vehicles in only one three-hour class session. bit different because we want“Each car is designed ed them to be able to meet the with a speciÀc child in mind needs of multiple children, and modiÀcations were made and we wanted the kids to be with everyday objects in order able to come and try to ensure families could repeach one to see licate adaptations at home,” what worked Dunsmoor said. best,” said In addition, each has a kill DeAnna switch located on the back of Dunsmoor, the machine as well as a chest physical strap for safety. therapist “I would love to see her for Benuse it in the yard,” said Sarah ton SteaKitzmann whose 5-year-old rns Edudaughter Ayla suffers from cation Spina biÀda. “I would love to District. see her mobility increase to places other than our driveway and patio.”

The hot-pink, specially designed Hello Kitty car was adapted for Ayla’s needs by placing a small PVC pipe near the steering wheel to create a bar steering system and moving the activation pedal to a button hands’ reach.

According to Ayla’s mom, Thursday was the Àrst time Ayla was able to drive a battery-operated vehicle independently.

“When I got to Benton Stearns in August there were these cars in boxes and DeAnna had this grand idea.

I have to thank the SCTCC for collaborating with us to Ànd solutions for creating these vehicles,” said Diane Moeller, executive director for Benton Stearns Education District. “I think this is an exciting way to say we want kids to experience mobility, but none of this would be possible without partnerships.

It really is all about partnerships.”

Benton Stearns Education district provides educational opportunities for students by increasing cooperation and coordination among member districts of Sartell, Sauk Rapids, Holdingford, Foley, Kimball and Rocori. Additionally they provide services which would be expensive for districts to provide on their Aiden Petersen, 5, of Sartell, gives a wave during a spin own including but not limited around a classroom April 7 at Hillside School in Sauk Rapids.

Petersen participated in the Benton Stearns Mobility Project’s to physical and occupational therapy, early childhood pro“Spring Cruising” event. gramming, physiological, visual and hard of hearing testing.

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searching crickets in Hawaii.

The focus will be on a species of Àeld cricket which lives with parasitic Áies.

“Male crickets sing to draw in females to mate, but these parasitic Áies hone in on that same song to Ànd a host and lay their eggs inside the cricket,” Heinen-Kay said.

“It essentially eats the cricket from the inside out. Hawaii is the only place in the world

where these two species overlap, so it will be another very unique research project.”

As far as further research after her work in Hawaii, Heinen-Kay isn’t sure where she wants to work next.

“There’s so many places I could go and so many things we don’t know,” Heien-Kay said. “Adam and I have had the opportunity to travel to some pretty cool places already, but

hope to continue traveling to learn more.”

When she was a high school student, Heinen-Kay couldn’t have imagined her life the way it’s turned out.

“I had no idea this career was out there,” Heinen-Kay said. “It has deÀnitely been fun and I’m glad I discovered it. To go outside and have all of these adventures, and do it for a job, is pretty cool.”

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Wingfest sets attendance record

PHOTOS BY ANNA SALDANA

(Above) Thousands of people attended this year’s Wingfest.

Patrons had 50 different sauces available to try at the event.

(Left) Rita Strickland, of Demon Pig BBQ, explains a wing sauce at Sports Arena East April 9. Demon Pig BBQ won second place in the pro division with their sauce.

by ANNA SALDANA STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS – Sports Arena East, located on the Benton County Fairgrounds, was packed with over 4,000 people on Saturday night for the Eighth Annual Wingfest.

With only 36,000 Gold’n

Plump chicken wings to go around, people lined up to try various sauces, ranging from the spiciest inferno to fruitbased Washington Apple.

“There’s something for everyone here,” said Nathan Sunderman of Clearwater.

“This is our third year coming, but we just want to keep

coming. It’s the wings, beer and atmosphere. Everyone is here to have a good time.”

Townsquare Media organizes the event each year.

Brandl family of dealerships provided free admission for all attendees.

“It is a lot of fun for us. We love to put the event on and the people have so much fun,” said Vicky PromBecker, the live events/senior account representative for Townsquare.

This was the biggest year for the event since it started eight years ago. It is estimated that anywhere from 4,0005,000 people attended the event to taste sauces from 50 different vendors. Out of the

50 vendors, the top three contenders were awarded in both the commercial/business and the amateur categories.

Cutting Edge Catering by Nelson Bros. took Àrst place in the pro division, followed

by Demon Pig BBQ in second and Pizza Depot in third.

In the amateur division, Paul Bahe took Àrst, followed by Kelly Daniels in second and Austin Maile in third.

With their biggest turnout ever, Townsquare is already planning for next year.

“This is one of our big annual events,” said PromBecker. “And with our biggest turnout ever, we plan to continue doing it.”

Tornado continued from front_______________ is the whole town. At the lower extremity, four or Àve households still keep a foothold in the earth, though badly shattered and twisted from their right position. At the upper extremity still stand about twice the number — just enough to supply hospitals and dead houses and quarters for the relied committee.

Between these two extremes once lay the town….the desolation is complete,” recorded an excerpt from the May 1, 1886 issue of Harper’s Weekly.

The tornado continued its northeastern path towards Morrison County before dissipating near Buckman, killing over 70 people immedi-

ately and injuring over 200 more (some which would lose their lives from injuries sustained by the storm.) In Rice, 14 people were lost from the wedding party of Henry Freitag and Minnie Schultz, including the groom, the pastor and his wife and the bride’s mother, brother and sister.

The scope of the destruction was overwhelming.

Had the twister struck today, downtown Sauk Rapids from the Mississippi River to Fourth Avenue N, Searle Street NE to Sixth Street N would be destroyed. The Sauk Rapids Fire Hall dismantled.

Russell Arms Apartments demolished. Coborn’s Superstore devastated, and Wil-

liams Dingmann Family Funeral Homes disintegrated.

The 1886 squall destroyed the iron-trussed bridge, the post ofÀce, the school, and the courthouse. It killed the president of the bank, the county advisor, county register and the pharmacist. County records were found up to 20 miles away. Two churches stood in ruins, railroad cars upturned and tracks pulled and mangled. Horse and carriage carried injured to the nearest bridge in St. Cloud to travel to the hospital.

But despite the devastation, the townspeople had pride.

“The newspaper had supposed to be printed the day the

tornado happened,” said Mary Ostby, executive director of the Benton County Historical Society. “Of course that never happened. But even with all the damage and devastation of the tornado, the people still had a stake in the community.

They managed to get their newspaper printed the next week on April 20 which is a real statement. It provided a sense of conÀdence and stability for the community.”

A framed copy of that issue of the Sauk Rapids Sentinel hangs today inside the Benton County Historical Society. Please visit for more information on Minnesota’s deadliest tornado and the history of Benton County.

Pulse on People Moon and Viere named to 2015 fall semester Luther College Dean’s List DECORAH, Iowa – Luther College seniors Tyler Moon and Anna Viere, of Sauk Rapids, have been named to the 2015 fall semester Dean’s List. Moon is the child of Jeff and Kay Moon.

Viere is the child of Debra and Loren Viere.

To be named to the dean’s list, a student must earn a semester grade point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale and must complete at least 12 credit hours with 10 hours of conventional grades (A, B, C, D).

in the 49th annual St. Cloud State University’s Mathematics Contest March 31.

Students who participated in the contest are in the top 15 percent status in their grade level. The contest then recognizes those performing in the top 10 and Àve percent of those competing at each grade level. Sauk Rapids students are as follows: Placing in the top Àve percent were seventh graders Alexandra Freihammer and Bode Magnuson, eighth grader Ryan Burgardt and junior Jeremy PÁipsen.

Placing in the top 10 percent were seventh grader Dakota Hoeschen, eighth graders Eleven ISD No. 47 students Tyler Lee, Nikita Presler recognized for mathematics and Joshua Schloe, freshachievement. man Dheva Subramaniam ST. CLOUD — Nearly 2,000 7th through 12th grade students from 43 schools across Minnesota participated

and seniors Mason Hertz and Alex Martins.

Based on his strong performance at the contest, Martins was awarded a math contest scholarship. He plans to attend St. Cloud State University in fall 2016.

Campbell presents at Celebration of Student Scholarship Emily Campbell, daughter of Scott and Deb Campbell of Sauk Rapids, is among the more than 300 Concordia students who presented their research as part of the all-day campus-wide Celebration of Student Scholarship April 13 at Concordia College. The OfÀce of Undergraduate Research and Scholarship sponsors the annual event.

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What’s Happening Thursday, April 14, 7-7:45 p.m. – Royalton FFA Alumni silent auction. Royalton High School, 120 Hawthorn Street S, Royalton. If you would like to donate or become an alumni contact Natalie Schmitt (320) 393-2999.

Saturday, April 16, 9 a.m. — Volunteer training for Project Astride. This is a 100 percent volunteer organization providing therapeutic horseback activities to individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities. Rock Creek Coffeehouse, 214 Second Avenue N, Sauk Rapids. Contact Marti at martiastride@yahoo.com or visit www.astride.org.

Sunday, April 17, 8-11 a.m. — St. Cloud’s Christian School’s Pancake Breakfast fundraiser for the Annual FamJam Carnival. Grizzly’s, 137 Second Avenue S, Waite Park.

Sunday, April 17, 8:30-noon — Duelm Knights of Columbus support Foley Area C.A.R.E. breakfast.

Serving all you can eat regular or blueberry pancakes, sausage, scrambled eggs, fruit cup, sweet rolls, juice, milk and coffee. St. Lawrence Parish Hall. 10915 Duelm Road NE, Foley.

Monday, April 18, 5:30-7 p.m. — Advanced health care directive information program sponsored by Advanced Health Care Directives CentraCare Health and Light the Legacy. CentraCare Health Plaza, Windfeldt Room, 1900 CentraCare Circle, St. Cloud.

Monday, April 18, 6-7:30 p.m. — Teen Game Night at Foley Library. Bring your own games, use the library’s and enjoy pizza and fun. Great River Regional LibraryFoley. 251 Fourth Avenue N, Foley.

Tuesday, April 19, 1-5 p.m. — 55+ Driver Improvement Refresher Class. Trinity Lutheran Church, 2163 Mayhew Lake Road NE, Sauk Rapids. To register call 320-252-3670.

Tuesday April 19 and Wednesday April 20, 5-9 p.m. – 55+ Driver Improvement Course. Eight-hour, Àrst-time course.

Sartell-St. Stephen Middle School. 627 3rd Avenue N, Sartell.

Tuesday April 19 and Wednesday, April 20, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

– 55+ Driver Improvement Course. Eight-hour, Àrst-time course. Whitney Senior Center, 1527 Northway Drive, St. Cloud.

Wednesday, April 20, 2-3 p.m. — Boomers and Zoomers (55+) presents Brain Games. Join for an afternoon of cranium crunches and brainteasers. Shepherd Oaks Apartments, 310 13th Street N, Sauk Rapids.

Friday, April 22, 4:30 p.m. — Huskies Football 2016 Spring Scrimmage and Youth Clinic. Free and open to the public.

Husky Stadium, St. Cloud State University, 1111 Third Avenue S, St. Cloud.

Monday, April 25, 1-7 p.m. — American Red Cross Blood Donation. Shepherd of the Pines, 1950 125th Street NW, Rice.

Tuesday, April 26, 5-9 p.m. — 55+ Driving Improvement four-hour refresher course. Apollo High School, 1000 44th Avenue N, St. Cloud.

Wednesday, April 27, 7 p.m. — Benton County Skywarn Training presented by the National Weather Service.

Sauk Rapids-Rice High School Performing Arts Center, 1835 Osauka Road NE, Sauk Rapids. Enter Door 6 on the west end of the school. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. For more information call Charlie (320) 251-7844.

Meetings Schedule First Monday Planning Commission, 7 p.m., Sauk Rapids Government Center.

Sauk Rapids Green Committee, 5 p.m., Sauk Rapids Government Center.

Rice Senior Citizens Club, 12:30 p.m., Rumor’s.

First Tuesday Watab Township Board, 7 p.m., Town Hall.

Mayhew Lake Township Board, 8:45 p.m., Lawrence Thell residence.

Housing and Redevelopment Authority, 7 p.m., Sauk Rapids Development Center.

First Wednesday Recreation Board, 7:30 p.m., 19 North Benton Drive.

First Thursday Sauk Rapids American Legion Post No. 254 and Auxiliary, 7 p.m., Sauk Rapids VFW. Sauk Rapids Jaycees, 7 p.m.

Sauk Rapids VFW. Great River Regional Coin Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Miller Auto Marine Sports Plaza, 2930 2nd St. S, St. Cloud. Cy Schaefer 320-252-8452.

Second Monday Sauk Rapids Sportsmen’s Club, 8 p.m., Molitor’s Quarry Grill & Bar. Third Monday Tinville Lions Club, 7 p.m.,

Rollie’s Redneck Bar, Hwy. 23 East.

St. Cloud Area Parkinson’s Disease (PD) Support Group, 1-2:30 p.m., St. Cloud Library, call Independent Lifestyles 320529-9000.

Second Tuesday Pleasantview Elementary PTA meeting, 7 p.m., Pleasantview Elementary.

Minden Town Board, 8 p.m., Minden Town Hall.

Sauk Rapids Fire Department, 8 p.m., Fire Hall.

Rice Women of Today, 7 p.m., Rice Lions Building.

Second Wednesday Sauk Rapids VFW Post 6992, 8 p.m.

Sauk Rapids VFW Post 6992 Auxiliary, 7 p.m.

Second Thursday Trinity Ladies Aid, 1 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church.

Sauk Rapids Women of Today, 5:30 p.m. Social time 6 p.m., Sauk Rapids VFW. Third Monday Knights of Columbus, Sacred Heart Church, 7 p.m.

Sauk Rapids Women of Today, 7 p.m., SR American Legion.

Third Tuesday Benton County Historical Society, 7 p.m., Museum Building, 218 1st St. N, Sauk Rapids.

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The Sauk Rapids Herald

OPINION

A little does a lot

The cul-de-sac life

What a great time of the year! The sun is shining brighter, the days are getting longer and we have the opportunity to celebrate the success of our children’s endeavors such as their academic growth, musical talents and athletic accomplishments. It is exciting to see families and community members come together and to demonstrate their Storm pride. We often recognize our children, by Dr. Daniel Bittman their parents, and even coaches, but when was the last time we thanked our Superintendent’s Corner custodians, secretaries, administrators, ticket takers, ofÀcials, bus drivers and all of the others behind the scenes?

As Superintendent, I often have the opportunity to see the “behind the scenes,” and am extremely thankful for all of the people that work tirelessly to make sure our events occur seamlessly. The custodians spend countless hours setting up, taking down, cleaning and making sure everything is in place. Our secretaries manage communications, answer questions, and make sure students are able and ready to play.

Administrators oversee events, maintain order and support all participants, all of which takes an enormous amount of time away from their own families. Ticket takers, ofÀcials, bus drivers and countless others greet guests, open doors, manage contests and transport athletes to and from events. Without any one of these individuals, our children and families would not have the same experience. Our people make Sauk RapidsRice a great place and one worthy of great pride and joy.

On behalf of the Sauk Rapids-Rice School District and Board of Education, I want to thank each one of these individuals for taking care of our kids and for making our school district and community special! Next time you are able to join us for an event, I encourage you to take a moment to thank one of our unsung heroes, I know I will and that they will appreciate the recognition.

Twins off to horrible start

For a team with high hopes heading into the hits and one RBI, Trevor Plouffe is hitting .174 2016 season, the 0-7 Minnesota Twins are off to with two extra-base hits and one RBI, and Kurt Suzuki is hitting .125 with two extra-base hits the worst possible kind of start for a team with and a whopping two RBI (which ties him for a fan-base hungry to see a winner. In 2015, the the team lead). It’s not just the absurd amount surprising Twins rallied to an 83-79 record and of strikeouts; the Twins are also failing to do the remained in playoff contention until the Ànal little things that help win ballgames. Here’s a week of the season. Heading into the offseason, perfect example of Twins baseball in 2016 – in many fans started to talk about their playoff asa tightly-contested game against the Royals last pirations moving forward – and rightly so. The weekend, leadoff hitter and purported offensive Twins’ lineup is comprised of a promising bunch

by ANDY THAYER of young players that, in theory, should be even SPORTS COLUMNIST catalyst Brian Dozier came up with a runner on second base and no outs. Rather than moving better this year. Expectations were high, and the runner to third, he pulls two balls foul trying your 2016 Twins have responded by unleashing the most disappointing stink bomb out of the gates in team to hit a home run and then punches out on a fastball at his eyes. Even usually rosy color commentator Bert Blyleven is history.

Almost nothing is going right for this team so far. Their starting to call these guys out for their poor approach at the record is 0-7, but it somehow feels even worse than that. plate, and that’s when you really know things are bad. Joe Through seven games, the team’s batting average is .219, Mauer and Eduardo Escobar are the only two hitters in the with 79 (seventy-nine!) strikeouts, 17 extra-base hits, and 21 team’s lineup that even resemble major league players at this walks. That, my friends, is some historically abysmal offen- point.

The back-end of the Twins’ bullpen has also been horsive production. They are making pitchers like Chris Tillman, Ubaldo Jimenez, Ian Kennedy, Edison Volquez, and Jose riÀc. Closer Glen Perkins currently sports a 9.00 ERA with Quintana look like the second coming of 1968 Bob Gibson. a blown save, having surrendered Àve hits and a walk in two I understand that there are going to be some growing pains, innings pitched. He’s throwing 92 mph with no movement and young players are going to strike out more often than (down from 96 in his prime), and he basically looks like a veteran guys, but the Twins are punching out an average of lefty specialist that needs to rely on his slider at this point.

11.29 times per game. That is straight-up embarrassing. By- Kevin Jepsen has been even worse, with a 10.13 ERA in ron Buxton is currently hitting .182 with 11 strikeouts in 22 three innings pitched with two losses already to his name. at bats, and he has the fourth-best batting average on the team Jepsen’s stuff looks alright, but he has had the command of among regular players! Byung Ho Park is hitting .143 with a seventh-grader, either throwing balls or cookies right down 12 strikeouts in 21 at bats, and Miguel Sano is even worse, mainstreet.

Honestly, I’m struggling to put into words how disaphitting .136 with 13 strikeouts (and zero extra-base hits) in 22 pointing this 0-7 start has been. I understand that it’s only at bats.

Even the team’s veteran players are coming up empty. seven games and that represents a pretty small sample size of Brian Dozier is hitting a hollow .192 with two extra-base data. However, it’s not just the losses – it’s the way the Twins are losing that has me so bummed out. For the most part, they can’t even put the ball in play offensively, and if they somehow magically score a couple of runs and get a lead, the bullWhen the rest just pen blows it in dramatic fashion. This 2016 Twins team had hopes of contending for a division title this year, and instead don’t cut it! they have taken all of the wind of out their hopeful fans’ sails • Edging • Spring and Fall in the Àrst week of the season. Congratulations.

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What does it take for you to lose a shoe on the leys and roadways—there is more than enough to side of a highway? share.

It may seem like an odd question, but I can’t As a youngster, I had the opportunity to walk ditches and collect the garbage and sometimes tell you how many times I’ve traveled down a unmentionables of others. In addition to learning stretch of road and witnessed a Áip-Áop, boot or what poison ivy looks (and eventually feels) like, I tennis shoe haphazardly lying on the road shoullearned the valuable lesson of placing my waste in der. What was going on inside the vehicle that clothing was littered indiscriminately away?

by NATASHA BARBER trash receptacles. I remember not liking the multiple-mile excursion my parents took my brother Litter is my real topic of conversation. Every and I on, but I also remember how wonderful the year when the snow melts in central Minnesota, road shoulders and ditches looked after we had our ditches and road right-of-ways are gifted with other people’s trash. It slightly reminds me of those fancy gathered several lawn bags of aluminum cans and debris. So candles with trinkets buried inside, but instead of fun surpris- if you see me chasing after a receipt, slipped from my hand es we get plastic shopping bags, duct work, fast-food bever- by the wind, it’s because I have the guilt instilled in me which holds me accountable for my trash. age cups and my all-time favorite dirty diapers.

As Earth day approaches next Friday, April 22, I urge evMaybe it was the Chevy pick-up truck driver cruising down the highway last week with a mess of trash Áoating eryone to take a look at what they are doing to clean up their up out of his bed as he accelerated and looked in his review planet. If you need an honest reminder of how thoughtless mirror awe-struck. Maybe it was the tobacco user or the gum humans can be check out the movie theatre after the show, chewer who carelessly let their refuse slip out the window the bleachers after the game or. . . our public parks, roads crack without a second thought. Maybe if was the unknowing and spaces. Use this time before school lets out and summer traveler, who forgot to secure reinforcements in their load and schedules Àll to teach your children conservation efforts. who will reach their destination minus one couch cushion. Or Even if you spend just 10 minutes cleaning up the local playground or riverbank, it will be time well invested in the future maybe it was you.

In a day and age where we are constantly reminded about of our community and the children yet to come.

Tie your shoes, make sure they’re tight and enjoy this carbon footprints, pollution and recycling, it’s amazing to see how much garbage we are still leaving carelessly behind. planet ride. After all – “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do If you doubt me, take a look around at our parking lots, al- nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.”

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One inlet into a perfect circle with six houses packed around makes up our cul-de-sac. We are the new kids on the ‘sac since we moved into our rental. It’s pretty fascinating to drive into an empty cul-de-sac and once we reach our driveway, then, the neighbor children start pouring out of their

By Mercy Nygaard houses that are all facing each other.

Do you want to play? Multiple voices Life by Faith start asking behind us, simultaneously, as we open our van doors. Yeah, go ahead. We can barely say no to such excitement. Eleven kids in total and a full game of kickball is quickly in progress.

I’m very fond of what I’ve been witnessing and I love history, so naturally I looked up when cul-de-sacs were Àrst implemented. They have been found as early as Egyptian times.

Much later, German architect, Rudolf Eberstadt wrote about cul-de-sacs in the Contemporary Review, “The Problems Of Town Development.” 1909 -”I ought to mention here that to keep trafÀc out of residential streets is necessary not only in the general interest of the population, but, above all, for the sake of the children, whose health (amongst the working classes) is mainly dependent on the opportunity of moving about in close connection with their dwelling places, without the danger of being run over. In the earlier periods, trafÀc was excluded from residential streets simply by gates or by employing the cul-de-sac.”

And it’s true. Once a car enters the cul-de-sac, the children have plenty of time to clear out of the way for it to pass and then back in the circle they go, resuming their play. It reminds me of the antique, sepia photos I’ve seen of city dwelling with kids outside their living complexes, playing stickball in the streets.

Cul-de-sac life must be a special community to many because I have found there is a comic named “Cul-de-sac,” by Richard Thompson that was published by Universal Press Syndicate from 2004-2012. It’s about a four year old girl living the circular-shaped suburban life. I also found there are a series of Christian books named “Cul-de-sac Kids” that provide ample stories of adventure and predicaments the kids Ànd themselves in.

Our cul-de-sac kids are all the sweetest. A 14-year-old girl holds hands with and watches over our youngest four-year old. She doesn’t have to give our daughter the time of day but she plays with her generously. A 15-year-old boy encourages our seven-year old whenever she asks to be on his team. He generously gives the little ones head starts and plenty of time to catch up. Then, there is the cute, round hockey boy who for some reason, much reminds me of the little neighbor boy riding the trike on The Incredibles who yells, “That was totally wicked!” This boy is Àlled with questions and curiously but so friendly, introduced himself to my husband the day we moved into our rental.

The other day we watched four boys intensely looking into the foundation of one of the neighbors houses. My husband yells out the window as his boyhood memories of reptile hunting were sparked, “What did you Ànd?” “Baby bunnies!”

They replied.

Our rental house is going to be listed on the market soon and we are still awaiting the place God has lined up for us to call home. It’s going to be bittersweet when we leave this neighborhood. If there was a little more room for our business supplies, we would be very happy to watch the kids grow up here. I need to spend more time getting to know the kids that have been so kind to our own. I hope you are encouraged that God has placed you exactly where He needs you at this moment. Make the most of it.

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Obituaries Daniel “Danny” M. Yozamp

Funeral Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at Life Assembly of God in St. Cloud for Danny Yozamp, age 59 of Sauk Rapids, who died Thursday from a neurodegenerative brain disease. He died at home surrounded by his loving family.

Rev. Dave Oler ofÀciated and entombment will follow the funeral at Hilltop Mausoleum in Sauk Rapids. Daniel “Danny” M. Yozamp Danny was born to Robert “Bob” Yozamp, Sr.

Louise Julia Hoffman

Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m. Sat., April 16, 2016, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sartell for Louise Julia Hoffman, 76 of Sauk Rapids who passed away on Sunday at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Sauk Rapids. Rev. Timothy Baltes will ofÀciate and burial will be at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery near Little Falls at a later date.

Friends and relatives may call from 4–8 p.m. on Fri., April 15, 2016, at Williams

Louise Julia Hoffman

and Joan (Stowe) Yozamp. He married Jane Koenig on August 1, 1981, in St. Cloud. Danny followed his father’s passion for the car business. He worked in car sales for 15 years having worked at Klein Oldsmobile, Gilleland Chevrolet and Miller Pontiac. He worked as an Area Manager for CCP Industries and as an entrepreneur for his own automotive and construction cleaning supply business for 16 years. He was a top producing area manager for CCP Industries, having won numerous awards and trips.

He worked as a Correctional

OfÀcer at the Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud for four years until his health declined.

He was a muscle car enthusiast and loved to go to car shows with his wife and son. He was an A- Level racquetball player at health clubs in the St. Cloud area.

He enjoyed boating, camping, walking, watching the Vikings, Wild and Twins, his cats and loved spending time with his family.

Danny had the gift of gab and he could speak and relate to people through his sense of

humor. He was known for his dry wit and uncanny one liners.

Danny is survived by his loving wife, Jane of Sauk Rapids; children, Paul (Gail) Donovan of St. Cloud, Danielle Yozamp of Zimmerman, Rachel Yozamp of Waite Park, Michael (Abby) Yozamp of Sauk Rapids; mother, Joan Yozamp of St. Cloud; motherin-law, Phyllis Hoffman of Waite Park; father-in-law, Darv Koenig of Dunedin, Fla.; brother, Bob (Deb) Yozamp, Jr., of St. Cloud; sister, Patti Jones of Sacramento, Calif.; sister-in-law, Judy Kutzorik

of Sauk Rapids; brothersin-law, Brian (Kris) Koenig of St. Cloud and Steven (Liza) Koenig of Edina; and grandchildren, Sophia, Haley, Johnny, Lily, Tommy, Ellie, Gavin and Brandon.

Danny was preceded in death by his father, Bob Yozamp, Sr.; brothers-inlaw, Greg Koenig and Bruce Kutzorik.

A special thank you to the staff of CentraCare Hospice.

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Dingmann Family Funeral Home in Sauk Rapids and also one hour prior to services at the church in Sartell on Saturday.

St. Monica’s Christian Women will pray the rosary at 4 p.m. followed by parish prayers at 4:30 p.m. Friday evening at the funeral home. The visitation will conclude with a time of sharing at 7:30 p.m.

Louise was born on Jan. 5, 1940, in St. Wendel Township to Theodore and Martha (Lampert) Kuklok.

She graduated from Cathedral High School and was united in marriage to Ronald Hoffman

on October 12, 1961, in St. Wendel. Louise has lived in the Sauk Rapids area for 54 years.

She was a surgical technician at the St. Cloud Hospital. Louise was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sartell, where she belonged to St. Monica’s Christian Women, taught CCD and also worked at the fancy work stand at the parish festival. She was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 622 Auxiliary of St. Cloud. Louise enjoyed baking, cooking, gardening and canning. She was great at making her house a home

where she instilled a strong life lesson in her children of making the most out of what you have.

Louise always demonstrated genuine love and interest in her family and all those around her.

Survivors include her husband Ron of Sauk Rapids; daughters and sons, Sheryl Yassin of St. Cloud; Shelia (Vince) Reineke of Clear Lake, Sharon Pesonen of Monticello, Brian (Laurie) of Maple Grove, Shanon (Joe) Dockendorf of Big Lake, Brenda (Richard) Davidson of Coleraine, Bruce (Cindy) of Minnetonka, Shaun (Arnie)

Elling of Mound and Bradley (Lara) of Minnetonka; sisters and brothers, Marvin (Ann) Kuklok of Phillip, WI, Gladys (Gerald) Jurek of Wayzata, James (Carol) Kuklok of St. Joseph, Mary Kaye (Tom) Legatt of St. Cloud and Evelyn (Daniel) Scherping of Cedar; 21 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Julienne Dutton.

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Hazardous waste still an issue approved a contract for Erdmann’s work on this road.

The board will be holding their annual MS4 public hearing as a part of the May meeting.

Approved payment of donations approved at the annual meeting - $2,500 to the Benton County Economic Development organization, $500 to the Benton County Agricultural Society and $2,000 to Rice Recreation.

The Benton County Soil and Water Conservation District asked to put a monitoring system in Sucker Creek for water testing. A monitor was put into the creek in 2008 and later removed. The board approved the request.

Announced the Board of Appeal and Equalization meeting will take place April 14 at 2:30 p.m. at the Town Hall.

Approved improvements to the Áoor of the town hall, totaling approximately $300.

The Áoor will be cleaned, stripped and waxed in April.

State Representative Jim Newberger is continuing to push for funding for the Watab overpasses project. Currently, this bill is one of 800 and is Newberger’s top choice for funding. The board is completely supportive of the project happening

Askamit continued from front__________________ miss is a kid running up to him in the store where I’m shopping and sharing a successful hunting story with him because he was their instructor.

Even though he retired and is moving out of the area, Aksamit doesn’t want to completely give up the title of Àrearm safety instructor.

“I told the guys if they need me to come back to Sauk Rapids to do a class, to substitute or whatever, all they need to do is call me. I’ll drive over two hours to get here and do the class,” Aksamit said.

With gun control being such a big issue around the country and beyond, Aksamit focused in on conceal and carry classes and his view on the issue.

“I completely support anyone who wants to get certiÀed for their conceal and carry. It is very important and hopefully none of us will have to defend ourselves, but we should at least have that right if necessary,” Aksamit said.

Even though he has a conceal and carry permit, Aksamit says he will be the last one to shoot the Àrearm.

“If I have to shoot, I will,” Aksamit said. “But it’ll be the last thing I want to do. One thing people Ànd interesting is that I’ve never owned a handgun in my life. I plan to purchase a handgun in the near future, as it’s more of a priority for me now than it has

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“It was a lot of work to have a class of that size. It was hard to get points across to everyone, where everyone could hear what was said,” Aksamit said. “It was challenging, but even the kids back then, I was convinced they had learned the material because my fellow instructors and I always worked hard to make sure the students grasped everything.”

The biggest change from then to now is the class is very well organized with a set schedule and speciÀc responsibilities for each instructor.

It has been important for Aksamit to attend each and every class, making sure students stay on task and do well in the class.

The class sizes were reduced signiÀcantly over the course of time as well, as requested by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). As a result of that, Aksamit and his fellow instructors saw fewer disruptive students.

He already knows he will miss the students and being around them in class.

“I absolutely love the feeling of ‘wow, I’m convinced these kids gained the knowledge that we were trying to get across.’ That’s what I will miss the most,” Aksamit said.

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When Aksamit was Ànishing up his last class on Mar. 31, fellow instructors surprised him with a plaque and recognition.

“That was a total surprise for me. There are so many other instructors that are more deserving of the award than I am. Why they did all of this for me, I’m not sure. It was a total shock,” Aksamit said.

“There are so many prior instructors that are more deserving of the recognition and I would have much rather seen them get it.”

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Approved Astech Corporation for the three bituminous (seal coating) projects – Riverview Loop, 5th Avenue and the Town Hall parking lot. The three projects all together will cost $36,740.00.

The board also approved to transfer $2,500 from the seal coating budget to the crackÀlling budget.

Discussed updates on the Lake Andrew development.

The development has had

no additional sales since the moratorium was lifted, but two building permits were issued. The board reviewed the pumping record for the month of February and felt that Scott Jarnot is in compliance with his agreement with the town board. The board plans to continue revisiting the agreement and pumping records each month.

Revisited the storm water run off issue near 85th Street and Oak Hill Estates.

This continues to be a topic of discussion and the board is planning to speak with Jeff Hanson, owner of the Oak Hill Estates development, and Wayne Cymbaluk, the township’s MS4 consultant, with further questions regarding the issue. Another update is expected at the May meeting.

The 2016 road projects were discussed and Clerk Spence said that a contract is needed for crack Àlling. The board approved the proposition of a contract with Saldana Excavating for any necessary work throughout the season. Brian Erdmann also brought up an issue with the minimum maintenance section of 105th Street and discussed what he would like to do to prevent further erosion and mud. The board

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WATAB TOWNSHIP – A property on Plaziak Road continues to be a growing concern for the Watab Town Board and area residents.

Prior to the February board meeting, a few residents contacted the board regarding piles of hazardous waste scattered throughout the property. The piles contain everything from refrigerators and old appliances to old furniture and are developing amongst dead and fallen pine trees.

This property was the site of a garage Àre in June 2015 and the board is concerned that the waste will soon cause another major Àre.

“With the trees and junk, there’s a concern for another Àre, but there’s also concern with children wanting to dig around in the waste now that it’s getting warmer outside,” said Pat Spence, township clerk. “There are also toxins in this hazardous waste that, over time, will get into the groundwater and cause many more issues.”

In March, the town board brought the property to the county’s attention and requested an inspection and

removal of the waste. However, when the county went out for an inspection, they were unable to enter onto the property.

Currently, the Minnesota Department of Development and the Benton County attorney are working together to get the property cleaned up.

Township Supervisor Craig Gondeck will continue tracking progress on the issue and will be bringing it back to the board at the May meeting. In the meantime, one pile of waste, sitting in the road’s ditch, was removed.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

LOCAL NEWS

Sauk Rapids Police Department Activity Monday, March 28 0135 hrs – disturbance/noise complaint on the 2000 block of High Dr 0303 hrs – welfare check on the 100 block of 3rd Ave S 0808 hrs – suspicious activity on the 400 block of 13th Ave S 0820 hrs – assist other agency 1036 hrs – theft on the 1000 block of Stearns Dr 1215 hrs – juvenile problem on the 900 block of 1st St S 1500 hrs – assist other agency 1542 hrs – theft on the 1800 block of Osauka Rd NE 1552 hrs – domestic dispute on 3rd Ave S 1642 hrs – hit and run on Benton Dr S 1645 hrs – assist other agency 1802 hrs – theft on the 1700 block of 2nd Ave N 1802 hrs – dispute on the 1400 block of Fieldstone Dr 1804 hrs – juvenile problem on the 800 block of Allisons Mdw 1836 hrs – missing person on the 100 block of 18th St NW 2005 hrs – Àres on the 1800 block of Benton Dr N 2029 hrs – suspicious activity on the 1600 block of N River Ave 2107 hrs – harassment on the 400 block of 13th Ave S 2125 hrs – assist public 1 trafÀc stop – verbal warning issued Tuesday, March 29 0135 hrs – ordinance violation 0541 hrs – assist other agency 0657 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0815 hrs – trafÀc accident on Benton Dr N and 1st St N 0935 hrs – suspicious activity on the 800 block of Pearl View Dr 0938 hrs – harassing or threatening phone calls on the 200 block of Benton Dr N 0953 hrs – suicidal person on 3rd Ave S 1039 hrs – suicidal person on the 1000 block of 6th Ave N 1055 hrs – trafÀc/driving complaint 1154 hrs – domestic assault on the 1200 block of 10th Ave NE 1527 hrs – trafÀc/driving complaint 1533 hrs – theft on the 1000 block of 6th Ave N 1626 hrs – theft on the 800 block of Cty Rd 3 1735 hrs – open door 1832 hrs – assist other agency 1857 hrs – unwanted 1932 hrs – suicidal person on the 500 block of 9 ½ St N 2337 hrs – medical/ambulance assist Wednesday, March 30 0143 hrs – suicidal person on the 300 block of 2nd Ave S 0725 hrs – domestic dispute on the 1200 block of 2nd Ave N 0730 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0747 hrs – welfare check on the 1300 block of 13th St Cir 0758 hrs – domestic dispute on the 300 block of 13th St N 0800 hrs – juvenile problem on the 300 block of 13th St N 0850 hrs – terroristic threats on 2nd Ave S and 4th St S 0927 hrs – suspicious activity on the 1900 block of Benton Dr N 1144 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1400 hrs – terroristic threats on the 1900 block of Benton Dr N 1454 hrs – assist other agency 1525 hrs – assist public 1550 hrs – informational 1759 hrs – trafÀc/driving complaint 1846 hrs – assist other agency 1858 hrs – suicidal person on the 1100 block of 7th Ave N 1907 hrs – suspicious activity on the 900 block of 1st St N 1909 hrs – informational 2159 hrs – assist other agency 2313 hrs – suspicious activity on the 100 block of River Ave S 2335 hrs – suspicious activity on the 100 block of River Ave S 3 gun permit purchases; 3 human services reports Thursday, March 31 0830 hrs – animal complaint on the 100 block of 8th Ave N 0942 hrs – runaway on the 900 block of 1st St S 1134 hrs – assist public 1313 hrs – disturbance on the 300 block of 2nd Ave S 1346 hrs – records check 1446 hrs – informational 1501 hrs – informational 1609 hrs – informational 1802 hrs – found property on the 1900 block of Benton Dr N 1834 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1836 hrs – hit and run on the 300 block of 2nd Ave S 1944 hrs – suicidal person on 4th St S and 9th Ave S 2014 hrs – assist public 2100 hrs – theft on Benton Dr S 2144 hrs – assist other agency 2230 hrs – suspicious activity on 8th St N and 2nd Ave N 2256 hrs – domestic dispute on the 1900 block of Benton Dr N 2310 hrs – suspicious activity on the 100 block of River Ave S 4 trafÀc stops – 2 citations and 2 verbal warnings issued; 2 gun permit purchases Friday, April 1 0211 hrs – suspicious activity on the 1100 block of 4th Ave N 0240 hrs – suspicious activity on 2nd Ave N 0401 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0702 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0716 hrs – alarm 0801 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1407 hrs – juvenile problem on the 2800 block of Ontario Ct NE 1618 hrs – theft on the 1100 block of 4th Ave N 1654 hrs – assist other agency 1744 hrs – suicidal person on the 300 block of 2nd Ave S 1816 hrs – parking complaint 1818 hrs – welfare check on the 100 block of 2nd Ave N 1938 hrs – theft on the 800 block of Pearl View Dr

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1941 hrs – found property on the 1000 block of River Ave N 1943 hrs – theft on the 200 block of 2nd Ave N 2100 hrs – forgery on the 100 block of 1st St S 2238 hrs – disturbance/noise complaint on the 400 block of Summit Ave S 8 trafÀc stops – 2 citations, 1 written warning and 5 verbal warnings issued; 1 human services report Saturday, April 2 0015 hrs – assist other agency 0039 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0335 hrs – assist public 0410 hrs – assist public 0423 hrs – theft on the 1700 block of 35th St NE 0430 hrs – disturbance on the 300 block of 9 ½ St N 0901 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1030 hrs – abandoned vehicle on the 100 block of 3rd Ave S 1112 hrs – informational 1112 hrs – escort 1130 hrs – welfare check on the 900 block of Oak Crest Ct 1500 hrs – juvenile problem on the 100 block of 6th Ave S 1630 hrs – welfare check on River Ave S 1759 hrs – trafÀc/driving complaint 1856 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1921 hrs – suicidal person on 3rd Ave S 2022 hrs – domestic dispute on the 1000 block of 7 ½ Ave N 2130 hrs – warrant arrest on the 1400 block of 10th Ave NE 2142 hrs – unwanted 2336 hrs – police proactive visit on the 100 block of 1st St S 2 trafÀc stops – 1 written warning and 1 verbal warning issued

Sunday, April 3 0229 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 0810 hrs – theft from auto on 900 block of W Highview Dr 0900 hrs – theft from auto on the 100 block of 18th St NW 1403 hrs – criminal damage to property 1600 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1625 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 1651 hrs – assist other agency 1704 hrs – Àres on the 700 block of 12th St N 1958 hrs – medical/ambulance assist 6 trafÀc stops – 1 citation and 5 verbal warnings issued

Rice Police Department Activity Monday, March 28 0938 hrs – records check Tuesday, March 29 0000 hrs – records check 1501 hrs – suspicious activity on 1st Ave NE Thursday, March 31 1012 hrs – property found on the 200 block of E Main St 1349 hrs – 3 gun permit purchases Friday, April 1 0000 hrs – records check 1310 hrs – theft gas drive off on the 400 block of E Main St Saturday, April 2 0507 hrs – theft gas drive off on the 400 block of E Main St

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE THE RIGHT TO VERIFICATION OF THE DEBT AND IDENTITY OF THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR WITHIN THE TIME PROVIDED BY LAW IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS ACTION. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, ADDRESS: 26 Portage Trail, DATE AND TIME OF M O R T G A G O R ( S ) that default has occurred in Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 SALE: May 26, 2016 at 10:00 RELEASED FROM conditions of the following TAX PARCEL I.D. #: 19-0322- AM FINANCIAL OBLIGATION described mortgage: 200 PLACE OF SALE: ON MORTGAGE: None DATE OF MORTGAGE: LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF Benton County Sheriff’s OfÀce, “THE TIME ALLOWED BY January 12, 2007 PROPERTY: 581 Highway 23 Northeast LAW FOR REDEMPTION MORTGAGOR: Brian Weiss Lot 4, Block 2, and a 1/21st Foley, MN to pay the debt then BY THE MORTGAGOR, THE and Denise Weiss interest in Outlots A, B and C, secured by said Mortgage, MORTGAGOR’S PERSONAL MORTGAGEE: Mortgage Mississippi Landing, Benton and taxes, if any, on said R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S Electronic Registration County, Minnesota premises, and the costs and OR ASSIGNS, MAY BE Systems, Inc., as nominee for COUNTY IN WHICH disbursements, including REDUCED TO FIVE WEEKS Equity MTG Group Inc. d/b/a PROPERTY IS LOCATED: attorneys’ fees allowed by law IF A JUDICIAL ORDER Equity MTG Fin. Benton subject to redemption within IS ENTERED UNDER DATE AND PLACE OF ORIGINAL PRINCIPAL six (6) months from the date of MINNESOTA STATUTES, RECORDING: Recorded AMOUNT OF MORTGAGE: said sale by the mortgagor(s), SECTION 582.032, April 16, 2007 Benton County $127,000.00 their personal representatives DETERMINING, AMONG Recorder, Document No. AMOUNT DUE AND or assigns unless reduced to OTHER THINGS, THAT THE A347483.

CLAIMED TO BE DUE Five (5) weeks under MN Stat. MORTGAGED PREMISES ASSIGNMENTS OF AS OF DATE OF NOTICE, §580.07.

ARE IMPROVED WITH A MORTGAGE: Assigned to: INCLUDING TAXES, IF ANY, TIME AND DATE TO RESIDENTIAL DWELLING M&T Bank. Dated January 21, PAID BY MORTGAGEE: VACATE PROPERTY: If OF LESS THAN FIVE UNITS, 2015 Recorded February 17, $148,822.43 the real estate is an owner- ARE NOT PROPERTY 2015, as Document No. 407980 That prior to the commencement occupied, single-family USED IN AGRICULTURAL TRANSACTION AGENT: of this mortgage foreclosure dwelling, unless otherwise PRODUCTION, AND ARE Mortgage Electronic proceeding Mortgagee/ provided by law, the date on or ABANDONED.” Registration Systems, Inc. Assignee of Mortgagee before which the mortgagor(s) Dated: March 24, 2016 T R A N S A C T I O N complied with all notice must vacate the property if M&T Bank AGENT’S MORTGAGE requirements as required by the mortgage is not reinstated Mortgagee/Assignee of I D E N T I F I C A T I O N statute; That no action or under section 580.30 or the Mortgagee NUMBER ON MORTGAGE: proceeding has been instituted property is not redeemed under USSET, WEINGARDEN AND 100050300005580668 at law or otherwise to recover section 580.23 is 11:59 p.m. on LIEBO, P.L.L.P. LENDER OR BROKER AND the debt secured by said November 28, 2016, unless that Attorneys for Mortgagee/ MORTGAGE ORIGINATOR mortgage, or any part thereof; date falls on a weekend or legal Assignee of Mortgagee STATED ON MORTGAGE: PURSUANT to the power holiday, in which case it is the 4500 Park Glen Road #300 Equity MTG Group Inc. d/b/a of sale contained in said next weekday, and unless the Minneapolis, MN 55416 Equity MTG Fin. mortgage, the above described redemption period is reduced to (952) 925-6888 RESIDENTIAL MORTGAGE property will be sold by the 5 weeks under MN Stat. Secs.

37-16-002214 FC SERVICER: M&T Bank Sheriff of said county as 580.07 or 582.032.

R-14-6B MORTGAGED PROPERTY follows: BENTON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT CSAH 8 BITUMINOUS RECLAMATION & SURFACING PROJECT FROM CR 47 TO TH 23 (ST. CLOUD) Sealed bid proposals will be received until 11:00 a.m. on Friday, April 29, 2016, at the Benton County Public Works Building, PO Box 247, 7752 Hwy 25 NE Foley, MN 56329 by Karri Thorsten, County Auditor/Treasurer of Benton County, for the CSAH 8 Bituminous Reclamation and Surfacing Project.

STATE PROJECT #: SAP 005-608-008 LOCATION: from CR 47 to TH 23 TYPE OF WORK: Bituminous Reclamation, Aggregate Base Preparation, Bituminous Paving and Aggregate Shouldering LENGTH: 0.989 Miles A full notice can be viewed by going to https://egram.co.benton. mn.us/ Date: April 1, 2016 Karri Thorsten, Benton County Auditor/Treasurer R-14-3B NOTICE The Benton County Cemetery Association Annual Meeting will be held Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 1:00 p.m. at Williams Dingmann Family Funeral Home, 324 Second Avenue South, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379.

R-15-2B CITY OF SAUK RAPIDS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE You are invited to attend a public hearing on Monday, April 25, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible, in the Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Avenue North, to consider the following matters that require a public hearing.

APPLICANT City Of Sauk Rapids PURPOSE To consider a Conditional Use Permit to allow a cellular utility structure at the Sauk Rapids Fire Hall and cellular antennas on the roof of the Fire Hall. Located at 408 Benton Drive North.

Please contact Sauk Rapids Community Development Director Todd Schultz at (320) 258-5315 or tschultz@ci.sauk-rapids.mn.us with questions or stop by City Hall to obtain a copy of the application.

Any person desiring to comment on these matters is invited to do so in writing or orally at the time of the public hearing.

R-15-1B

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE is hereby given that the City Council of the City of Sauk Rapids will meet in the Council Chambers at the Sauk Rapids Government Center, 250 Summit Avenue North, Sauk Rapids, Minnesota 56379 at 6:00 p.m. or as soon thereafter, on Monday, April 25, 2016, to conduct a public hearing for Royalynn Pizzerias LLC. D.B.A. “Urban Moose Brewing Co.” This application is to consider a request for an On-Sale Liquor License with Sunday Liquor Sales, Brew Pub Off-Sale Intoxicating Liquor License, and Seasonal Outdoor Sales for Urban Moose Brewing Co. located at 415 North Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379.

Any person wishing to express an opinion on the matter is invited to do so in writing or orally at the time of the public hearing. Inquiries should be directed to Dana Furman, Deputy Clerk at 258-5303 during normal working hours or to: Sauk Rapids Government Center 250 Summit Avenue North Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 R-15-1B

ASSESSMENT NOTICE Important Information Regarding Property Assessments This may affect your 2017 property taxes.

The Board of Appeal and Equalization for Watab Township in Benton County, Minnesota will meet on Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:30 p.m. at the Watab Township Hall. The purpose of this meeting is to determine whether property in the jurisdiction has been properly valued and classiÀed by the township assessor.

If you believe the value or classiÀcation of your property is incorrect, please contact your assessor’s ofÀce to discuss your concerns. If you disagree with the valuation or classiÀcation after discussing it with your assessor, you may appear before the local board of appeal and equalization. The board will review your assessments and may make corrections as needed. Generally, you must appeal to the local board before appealing to the county board of appeal and equalization.

Given under my hand this 30th day of March, 2016 Patricia Spence, Watab Town Clerk R-14-2B

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

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LOCAL NEWS

Highway 15 closures begin Monday ST. CLOUD – Motorists on Highway 15 between Highway 23/Division Street in St. Cloud and the Highway 15/Benton Drive interchange in Sauk Rapids may encounter delays as segments of the road are reduced to a single lane overnight beginning Monday, April 18.

The closures will occur from 7:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.

Sundays through Fridays. No closures are currently scheduled from 6:30 a.m. Saturday through 7:30 p.m. Sundays.

The closures are needed

while crews resurface Highway 15 between Highway 23/ Division Street in St. Cloud and the Benton Drive interchange in Sauk Rapids, and improve the Highway 15/12th Street N intersection and the Highway 15/County Road 1 intersection.

When complete, the project will result in a smoother ride, improve trafÀc Áow and accessibility and improve pedestrian safety.

For more information on 2016 roadwork on Highway

15 in St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Sartell, visit www.mndot. gov/d3/stc/.

A Stearns County project to improve County Road 1 at Highway 15 in Sartell will begin later this year. More information on that project can be found on the Stearns County website at www.co.stearns. mn.us/PropertyRoads/RoadConstruction/CSAH1HeritageDr. For real-time travel information anywhere in Minnesota, visit www.511mn.org.

Portions of park closed for hunt WATAB TOWNSHIP — For the seventh year, Benton County’s Bend in the River Park near Rice will be host to disabled veterans participating in a turkey hunt April 13-19. The hunt is organized

by Midwest Outdoors Unlimited and the Rice Area Sportsmen’s Club.

Five disabled veteran hunters will be hunting each

day on the portion of the Park lying East of County Road 55. Hunting will begin one-half hour before sunrise and end one-half hour after sunset. During this managed hunt, the eastern portion of the park will be closed to visitors. Signs will be posted throughout the Park informing visitors of the upcoming hunt.

Hunters have been selected by Midwest Outdoors Unlimited (midwestoutdoorsunlimited.com). Questions about the hunt can be directed to Mr. Ron Welle, President of Midwest Outdoors Unlimited, at (320) 987-3526. Approval for the hunt by disabled veterans was granted by the Benton County Board of Commissioners.

PUBLIC NOTICES BENTON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING MINUTES – March 15, 2016 The Benton County Board of Commissioners met in regular session on March 15, 2016 in the Benton County Board Room in Foley, MN with Commissioners Jake Bauerly, Ed Popp, Spencer Buerkle and Warren Peschl present and Commissioner Jim McMahon absent (excused). Call to order by Chair Buerkle was at 9:00 a.m. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Áag.

Peschl/Popp unanimous to approve the agenda as written.

Vern Heise (19226 Deerwood Road, Clearwater, MN) was present to speak under Open Forum, stating that he is the owner of the property west of Foley for which there is interest in establishing a community solar garden. Heise stated his belief that this property (at the intersection of TH 23 and CSAH 4) is not suitable for high-trafÀc development, but is a “perfect” site for a community solar garden. He stated his understanding that the City of Foley is opposed to use of this property for a community solar garden because it may be desirable for future development.

Heise stated his opinion that city expansion would not occur at this site in the next 25 years, and it is his desire that it should develop as a community solar garden.

Popp/Bauerly unanimous to approve the Consent Agenda: 1) approve the Regular Meeting Minutes of March 1, 2016 as written; 2) accept and Àle Committee of the Whole Minutes of February 23, 2016 as written; 3) accept and Àle Committee of the Whole Minutes of March 3, 2016 as written; 4) approve tax abatement for parcel 06.00083.00; 5) approve Application for Exempt Permit for St. Elizabeth’s Church to conduct bingo, rafÁe and pull tabs on June 26, 2016; 6) approve Application for Exempt Permit for Royals Wrestling Club to conduct paddlewheels, pull tabs, tipboards and rafÁe on July 28-30, 2016 at Henry’s Farm Market, Royalton; 7) approve Application for Exempt Permit for Turn in Poachers Brainerd Banquet to conduct a rafÁe on April 16, 2016 at Jack & Jim’s; 8) approve Application for Exempt Permit for Tanner’s Team Foundation to conduct a rafÁe on June 6, 2016 at Wapicada Golf Club; 9) adopt Resolution 2016-#6, approving application of St. Lawrence Church to conduct off-site gambling (bingo and rafÁe) on July 4, 2016, and authorize the Chair to sign; and 10) approve Special Road Use Permit—Heritage Day Parade—March 19, 2016 in the City of Rice, and authorize the Chair to sign.

Representatives from Foley Area CARE and Foley C.R.O.S.S. Center were present to receive funds that were raised as part of the Benton County employee holiday party; this year the employees donated a total of $1,502.00 with $751.00 going to each charity.

Dave Mosford, Mayor of the City of Foley (315 Maple Drive, Foley) appeared before the Board to address the potential development of a site west of Foley, at the intersection of TH 23 and CSAH 4, for a community solar garden. Mosford stated his belief that this property is a prime area for retail business “Àve or ten years down the road”; the city is not opposed to expanding city services to the west. He explained that retail business would be a better asset for the county as far as real estate taxes, noting that, as a solar garden, some of the equipment is tax exempt.

Jim McDermott, Emergency Management Director, was present to provide an update of current Emergency Management activities: Rampage School Shooter Training, Flood Outlook, Mitigation Grant, Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise, IPAWS (New Statewide Alert System), Pipeline and Oil Train, Emergency Operations Plan Review.

The Regular County Board meeting was recessed at 9:22 a.m. to conduct a Human Services Board meeting.

The Regular County Board meeting was reconvened at 9:36 a.m.

Lee Katzmarek, Human Resources Director, explained that an Eligibility Specialist in Human Services is currently on a 60day leave (through 4/26) and not expected to return; with two additional Eligibility Specialist openings approaching and a heavy workload for remaining staff, the department would like to move ahead in Ànding a replacement for the employee on leave. Peschl/Popp unanimous to authorize Àlling the Eligibility Specialist position for the employee currently on leave.

A public hearing to consider Ordinance #455, amending the Benton County Development Code Ordinance, to allow “Solar Energy Systems” within the Benton County Development Code, was opened at 9:39 a.m. Joe Janish, Department of Development Director, explained that this ordinance amendment would allow for larger solar projects to be an Interim Use Permit in the Agricultural and Rural Agricultural zoned districts (a minimum time frame of 25 years; if the project becomes part of a city through an annexation process or orderly annexation process and a joint planning board is established, that planning authority would be able to either re-permit the facility or not permit the facility after the 25-year time frame), and would also allow for accessory solar energy systems, for on-site use only, in many zoning districts.

Janish noted that, on February 11, 2016, the Planning Commission provided a positive recommendation to the County Board related to the ordinance; the ordinance language addresses details such as wetlands, permit application requirements/criteria, setbacks, Áood plain, site plan, and decommissioning plan (county may require some type of Ànancial guarantee to ensure proper decommissioning). Janish also spoke of the potential tax base generated by solar energy systems as compared to homestead agricultural or non-homestead/rural vacant land. He clariÀed that, at this time, no application for a solar energy system for a speciÀc site has been received as the current ordinance does not allow for such. Peschl commented that Benton County is an agricultural county and felt that solar gardens should be placed so as not to disturb agricultural land. Speaking in favor of the proposed ordinance was Tena Monson with Geronimo Energy. She stated her belief that the ordinance is fair and thorough, acknowledging that each application/project for a solar farm may have its own unique concerns/characteristics. Monson stated that Geronimo Energy is actively working with the City of Foley to address their concerns. She noted that solar gardens are a low impact development where the site can be reused for other types of development, very similar to a conversion to CRP. Also speaking in favor was Vern Heise (19226 Deerwood Road, Clearwater), owner of property west of Foley where a community solar garden is being considered. He indicated that this site is fairly marginal farm land, relatively small in size (12-3/4 acres) with a high water table. Heise stated his belief that it will be 25-30 years before the city would expand to this area. Robert Barbian, Foley City Administrator, stated he is in favor of establishing an ordinance/ interim use permit, but asked for consideration in where the interim ordinance allows solar gardens. He commented that Highway 23 is a tremendous economic asset and feels the need for “higher value” uses at its intersections. Barbian noted that sewer and water are very close by (to the Highway 23/CSAH 4 intersection). At this time, Janish clariÀed that Benton County has not proactively zoned any property along Highway 23 for

business/commercial for a major stretch; the county does allow for several types of businesses as a conditional use in the agricultural district. He added that the county comprehensive plan references “urban growth areas” – areas which would potentially go to a city (the next step would be for the city to establish an orderly annexation agreement to address this area as well). Bauerly commented that, perhaps, these four major intersections which are between Foley and St. Cloud should be identiÀed for economic development opportunities. Speaking in favor of the proposed ordinance was Duane Hebert with Novel Energy Solutions, who was present on behalf of a property owner in Benton County who is interested in looking at a solar garden on his property. Hebert explained that his company is aware of the issues surrounding farm land; these facilities are easily decommissioned and maintain the underlying nature of the land itself. Hebert stated that the plantings they establish actually create a better storm water control than traditional row cropping. Herbert stated his belief that the proposed ordinance is designed to not only protect the citizens/neighbors/community, but also to allow proper development/opportunities. Janish summarized a handout which was received by Dave Mosford, Mayor of Foley, which read as follows: “I think it is a good goal to establish and develop solar gardens in the County. I believe with good placement the gardens can be an asset to us all. I wish to raise discussion and consideration on what makes for good placement of a solar garden. In particular, are highway intersections a good place for solar gardens? Following is an illustration of value and return: (several examples— Short Stop SA Gas Station in Minden Township and Silt Sock site in the City of Foley--are provided); Compare to: (an example of a solar garden on 12.75 acres at the intersection of Highway 23/ CR 4 is provided) I think with the County, City and Township working together we can do better. The intersection has water and sewer in close proximity to the site… Sites developed in the water and sewer service areas that do not need sewer and water make it more costly for other sites to be developed. This is due to the cost of the sewer and water having to be distributed over fewer properties. The proposed site is along a planned water and sewer main route.” With no one else speaking in support or in opposition, the public hearing was closed at 10:07 a.m. Peschl asked if the City of Foley could annex this property if they desired to preserve it. Janish stated there is a possibility that the City of Foley and Gilmanton Township (or any adjacent township) could establish an orderly annexation agreement; the language in that agreement would determine how the zoning is regulated in that area. Popp asked if the proposed ordinance would address Ànancial guarantees for the decommissioning of large scale solar farms as well. Janish clariÀed that this would be addressed in the interim use permit which is issued by the Planning Commission; the County Board would not take action on particular sites. Bauerly inquired if the proposed ordinance can be modiÀed at this point to address the concerns that cities may have (i.e. identify major intersections outside orderly annexation areas as economic development opportunities). Michelle Meyer, Assistant County Attorney, stated that, per MN Statute 394, all like properties must be treated similar; i.e. speciÀc restrictions cannot be attached to certain types of agricultural property that differ from other agricultural property. Meyer stated the options of rezoning properties along Highway 23 or creation of a joint planning board to protect the cities’ interest. Referring to the Highway 23 “economic corridor,” Bauerly stated his belief that rezoning of those intersections might be in order. Janish pointed out that an amendment to the comprehensive plan would be required in order to change those zoning classiÀcations. Popp noted that there are some large solar gardens on the horizon—delaying the ordinance could hinder interest in solar development; however, the presence of a large solar garden could be a hindrance to economic development nearby. Following brief discussion, motion by Peschl to approve Ordinance #455 and authorize the Chair to sign. Second by Popp for discussion. Janish clariÀed that this ordinance establishes the process/regulations; however, the Planning Commission will be the entity to evaluate individual applications for interim use permits as the sites are proposed (will be an opportunity for individuals to express speciÀc comments/concerns). Bauerly commented “it’s just disappointing that the two solar sites that they’ve sited in Benton County have both been in prime retail or commercial areas…because I’m leading the economic development effort, I’ll be abstaining on this vote.” The motion on the Áoor failed with Peschl voting aye, Buerkle and Popp voting nay, and Bauerly abstaining from the vote.

A public hearing to consider Ordinance #456, amending the Benton County Development Code Ordinance, to reduce the requirement of a lot width to depth ratio in the Agricultural and Rural Agricultural Districts, was opened at 10:22 a.m. Joe Janish stated that this lot width to depth ratio applies to lots less than 40 acres (current ordinance states that depth cannot be greater than 2.5 times the width); surrounding counties do not have a width to depth ratio. He explained that staff was originally concerned that removal of the ratio requirement might create an issue with the county’s driveway spacing guidelines; however, it is felt that the county’s access policy will guide the distance between, and number of, access points (the road authority determines the access location). With no one speaking in support or in opposition to the proposed ordinance, the public hearing was closed at 10:32 a.m.

Bauerly/Peschl unanimous to approve Ordinance #456, amending the Benton County Development Code Ordinance, to reduce the requirement of a lot width to depth ratio in the Agricultural and Rural Agricultural Districts, as recommended by the Planning Commission, and authorize the Chair to sign.

A public hearing to consider 2016 Solid Waste Facility Licenses for Waste Management, Republic Services (Minden Transfer Station), Henkemeyer LandÀll Inc. and Tri-County Organics LLC was opened at 10:33 a.m. Mark McNamara, Department of Development, explained that he has conducted site inspections of all four facilities; all are in good standing with MPCA. McNamara stated that, in the prior year, the Board has required Minden Transfer Station, Waste Management, and TriCounty Organics LLC to provide $1.5 million in liability insurance and a $10,000 bond; Henkemeyer LandÀll was not required to carry the bond, but was paying into the test well monitoring, closure and post-closure contingency fund as allowed by statute.

McNamara noted that Henkemeyer LandÀll is close to the maximum amount allowed to be paid into this fund (have paid in about $108,000 of the maximum allowed $112,000); he would recommend that this practice continue in 2016 and, perhaps, require a bond in future years. No one was present to speak in support or in opposition, the public hearing was closed at 10:40 a.m. Peschl/ Popp unanimous to approve 2016 Solid Waste Facility Licenses for Waste Management, Republic Services (Minden Transfer Station), Henkemeyer LandÀll Inc. and Tri-County Organics LLC (maintaining the status quo as far as surety bond, insurance and contribution to test well monitoring, closure and post-closure contingency fund), and authorize the Chair to sign.

Troy Heck, County Sheriff, presented his 2015 annual report; report highlights: Dispatch Services (26,760 Initial Complaint Reports generated; transitioned to VIPER telephone system); Civil Process/Warrant Division (958 requests to serve civil process; conducted 54 mortgage foreclosure sales; 1,338 arrest warrants received); Patrol Division (13,850 Initiation Complaint Reports were assigned to units; trafÀc stops were the single largest category of activity; Àve most reported crimes were theft, fraud, DUI, harassment and domestic abuse); Investigative Division (153 cases assigned with a 79 percent clearance rate); Jail Division (continued trend of increased inmate population—average daily population of 72.34 inmates; booked in a total of 1968 inmates (1,554 males and 414 females); average length of inmate stay was 12.19 days; over $59,000 in fees collected for booking, work release and daily boarding; over $384,000 collected in jail revenues from prisoner boarding for other agencies; Sentencing to Service crew had 58 inmates and worked a total of 5,364 hours on projects/worked off $11,331 in Ànes and over 670 jail days); Tobacco Compliance Checks (10 businesses passed, 5 businesses failed); Volunteers (Mounted Patrol worked 922 hours; Reserve Deputies performed 448.75 hours; volunteers performed 1,456 hours of work in programs in the jail); Public Outreach (several deputies became instructors for youth snowmobile safety courses and youth ATV safety courses; 420 DARE students in Àve Benton County Schools were presented the DARE curriculum); and Social Media (started both a Twitter and Facebook account).

Buerkle requested a report on the Violent Offender Task Force (drug/gang activity) in the future.

Chris Byrd, County Engineer, explained that, due to the continued unsuccessful recruitment of an Engineering Technician, two new position descriptions have been created (Civil Engineering Technician (with lower minimum qualiÀcations) and Senior Civil Engineering Technician). He stated that the Public Works Department would like to advertise both positions and recruit for either one; the placement into the appropriate position would be determined by qualiÀcations. Peschl/Popp unanimous to close the current advertisement/recruitment for Engineering Technician and advertise both the new Engineering Technician (Grade 8) position and Senior Engineering Technician (Grade 9) position, placing the successful candidate in either position, based on qualiÀcations and determined by the department head. Also approval to place any current Engineering Technicians at either Grade 8 (Engineering Technician) or Grade 9 (Senior Engineering Technician) depending on qualiÀcations and determined by the department head, with salary placement falling at whatever step is closest to current pay and does not result in a salary decrease.

Engineer’s Report: 1) Presented on the CSAH 3 project at the MN Transportation Conference in St. Paul; 2) Attended AMC Legislative Conference--a resolution was adopted to oppose any change in current legislation regarding county highway turn backs (proposed legislation from the township association would be in direct conÁict to the County Board’s goal for the Highway Department to identify roads in our county that don’t serve a county purpose anymore for possible turn back); and 3) March 18th Transportation Regional Meeting hosted by AMC. Monty Headley, County Administrator, explained that counties are required by the State to provide legal representation to parents involved in CHIPS (“child in need of protection or services”) and TPR (“terminating parental rights”) cases. He indicated that, up to this point, the County has paid a Àxed rate per case assigned to qualiÀed attorneys; the proposed contracts move to a Àxed annual payment (paid monthly) that will not vary with caseload. Headley stated that four attorneys (Cathleen Gabriel, Adam Brainard, Amy Chantry and Sam Young) currently provide this service to parents in Benton County Courts; the total Àxed cost for all four agreements is approximately equal to what the County paid in 2015, but may provide some relief from the cost of increased caseload, plus a reduction in the number of payments made to attorneys. Bauerly inquired if these contracts should go through a bid process. Headley noted that these services are very specialized with few attorneys qualiÀed to provide this representation. Popp/Peschl unanimous to approve two-year agreements with Attorneys Adam Brainard, Amy Chantry, Sam Young and Cathleen Gabriel (the appeal provision will be removed from the Sam Young contract), effective April 1, 2016, for CHIPS and TPR representation, and authorize the Chair to sign.

Bauerly/Popp unanimous to adopt a County Vision and Mission Statement as follows: Benton County Vision: “Benton County strives to deliver efÀcient and effective services that will improve the lives of our residents, doing so in a Àscally responsible way.”

Benton County Mission: • Provide excellent service • Make Benton County a great place to live and work, a great place to call home • Help our business community prosper • Keep the cost of government down through innovation, collaboration and technology Headley noted that all department heads will be asked to review, or create, their own departmental mission statement, using the county mission statement as a guide.

Board members reported on recent meetings they attended on behalf of the county.

Under Commissioner Concerns, Peschl commented that, during the budget process, the Board denied a request by the Department of Development for funding to complete an update of the comprehensive plan. He spoke in support of moving forward with completion of the plan. Bauerly stated his belief that those major intersections between Foley and St. Cloud need to be protected.

Under Commissioner Concerns, Popp reported on his visit to a number of townships to discuss the economic development efforts currently underway; several townships are quite concerned with the Ànished product of CR 78 due to the amount of trafÀc on that roadway.

Peschl/Popp unanimous to set Committees of the Whole: March 18, Transportation Regional Meeting Hosted by AMC; March 31, Discuss Employee “Wellness” with Corporate Health Systems Staff; April 7, Economic Development Workgroup; and April 13, Joint Meeting with Planning Commission.

Popp/Peschl unanimous to adjourn at 11:27 a.m.

Spencer C. Buerkle, Chair Benton County Board of Commissioners ATTEST: Montgomery Headley Benton County Administrator Publish April 12, 2016 R-15-1B

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LOCAL NEWS

by DAVID T. HOESCHEN STAFF WRITER

The Storm Baseball team started the season on a positive note as they went on to beat Rogers 7-6 Monday, April 11 in Rogers.

Senior Zach Fuecker set the tone of the game for the Storm, going three for four with a single, triple, and a home run.

The Storm were hot out of the gate, scoring two runs in the Àrst and followed that up with a four run effort in the second inning, only giving Rogers one run during the span.

“We were happy with how our pitchers threw strikes,” said Head Coach Jeff Hille. “That was the part of the game that went well for us.”

Junior Noah Klinefelter pitched four strong innings, only allowing two earned

runs. Klinefelter was succeeded by Sophomore, Cordell Lazer, who threw three innings and gave up no earned runs.

Junior utility player Ethan Bengtson also contributed at the plate going two for three with a single and a double.

The Storm host Willmar Friday, April 15 and then play at St. Cloud Apollo April 19.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CERTIFICATE OF ASSUMED NAME AMENDMENT Minnesota Statutes Chapter 333 (1) The exact name under which the business is or will be conducted is: Urban Moose Brewing Co. (2) The address of the principal place of business is: 415 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 (3) List a Mailing Address if you cannot receive mail at the principal place of business address: 415 N. Benton Drive, Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 (4) List the name and complete street address of all persons conducting business under the above Assumed Name, OR if an entity, provide the legal corporate, LLC, or Limited Partnership name and registered ofÀce: Royalynn Pizzerias LLC, 19381 Baldwin Cir NW, Elk River, MN 55330 (5) This certiÀcate is an amendment of CertiÀcate of Assumed Name File Number: 766116400026. Originally Àled on 06/17/2014. Under the name: Same (4) By typing my name, I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required, or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I further certify that I have completed all required Àelds, and that the information in this document is true and correct and in compliance with the applicable chapter of Minnesota Statutes. I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties of perjury as set forth in Section 609.48 as if I had signed this document under oath.

Lynn A. Dodds, Secretary/Treasurer 04/01/2016 R-15-2B STATE OF MINNESOTA DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF BENTON SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT NOTICE OF AND ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF DESCENT Court File No.: 05-PR-16-570 In Re: Estate of Gary Michael Kometz Decedent.

Alisa Kometz has Àled a Petition for Determination of Descent. It is Ordered that on May 5, 2016 at 1:30 p.m., a hearing will be held in this Court at the Benton County Courthouse, 615 Highway 23, Foley, MN 56329, on the petition.

The petition represents that the decedent died more than three (3) years ago leaving property in Minnesota. The petition requests the Court probate the decedent’s Will, determine the descent of such property and assign the property to the persons entitled.

Any objections to the petition must be raised at the hearing or Àled with the Court prior to the hearing. If the petition is proper and no objections are Àled or raised, the petition will be granted.

Notice shall be given by publishing this Notice and Order as provided by law and by mailing a copy of this Notice and Order to each interested person by United States mail at least 14 days before the time set for the hearing.

BY THE COURT Dated: 4/5/16 /s/ Michael S. Jesse, Judge of District Court Dated: 4/5/16 /s/ Jennifer Siemers Court Administrator Sam V. Calvert MN id #1431X attorney for petitioner 1011 2nd ST N STE 107 St. Cloud MN 56303 320-252-4473 R-15-2B BENTON COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT 2016 BITUMINOUS OVERLAY Sealed bid proposals will be received until 10:00 a.m. on Friday, April 29, 2016, at the Benton County Public Works Building, PO Box 247, 7752 Hwy 25 NE Foley, MN 56329 by Karri Thorsten, County Auditor/Treasurer of Benton County, for the 2016 Bituminous Overlay Project at various locations throughout the county.

COUNTY PROJECT #: 005-2016BO LOCATION: Various Locations TYPE OF WORK: Bituminous Surfacing A full notice can be viewed by going to https://egram.co.benton. mn.us/ Date: March 31, 2016 Karri Thorsten, Benton County Auditor/Treasurer R-14-3B

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by NATASHA BARBER STAFF WRITER

SAUK RAPIDS — Over 350 students and advisors from around the state of Minnesota spent the past weekend at the Minnesota Association of Student Councils (MASC) and Minnesota Association of Honor Societies (MAHS) state convention hosted by the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School.

The Dr. Seuss “Oh the Places You’ll Go” theme transformed the high school building into a Seuss wonderland with props and decorations which included classrooms designated to Seuss books for each of the MASC/ MAHS divisions.

After the 2015 convention, advisor Trisha Bemboom had put in a bid to have Sauk Rapids-Rice host the state convention, something it hadn’t in 10 years. After being chosen, members from the Sauk Rapids-Rice chapters worked closely with the MASC/MAHS executive boards to execute the vision of the annual leadership conference. Two Sauk RapidsRice executive board members, senior Sydney Bitz and junior Luke Vannurden, have been planning what the threeday event would look like for over six months.

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Wednesday Noon - 7:00 p.m.

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The compost sit accepts leaves, wood chips, brush, and grass clippings with a valid Compost Sticker.

Stickers can be purchased at City Hall or at the Compost Site and are available for City of Sauk Rapids residents and Minden Township residents.

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF AUCTION (OfÀcial Publication) Public Storage, Inc. PS Orangeco, Inc. and/or Shurgad TRS, Inc. will conduct Sales at Public Storage located at Public Storage Self-Storage, Sauk Rapids 25553, 1111 Franklin Ave., Sauk Rapids, MN 56379 NOTICE OF SALE AND DISPOSAL OF PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will sell at public auction on Thursday, April 28, 2016, personal property including but not limited to furniture, clothing, tools and/or other household items at 9:30 a.m. The name of the person(s) whose personal property is to be sold is as follows 1312 Willard, Taylor 1329 Loch, Gary 1334 Loch, Barbara 1422 Cole, Margaret 1436 Lafrance, Christine 1502 Hendrickson, Deja 1544 Bohndorf, Tara 1616 Adams, Nathan 1621 Jensen, Jodi 2214 Dumonceaux, Jacklyn 2320 Lorentson, Nicholas 2420 Swenson, Debbie 2505 Aune, Melissa 2510 Schyma, Doris 3210 Abella, Wilson 4101 Henning, Michael 4309 Udermann, Mathew 4322 Aspinwall, Sally 4407 Pickner, Roland R-14-2B

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Members of the Minnesota Association of Student Council executive board and Sauk RapidsRice High School students Luke Vannurden (left) and Sydney Bitz stand near a Dr. Seuss prop outside the Performing Arts Center April 9 at the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School. The two helped organize a three-day MASC leadership event.

“We wanted it to be bigger and better than the convention last year,” Bitz said.

“The best part of it for me is that we get to meet so many people from all over the state.”

Bitz and Vannurden have both participated in student council since seventh grade and both have attended two national MASC/MAHS conventions. They say the lessons learned and connections made at these leadership conferences invaluable.

“You make connections with people and come together to talk about differences and how we can communicate and interact despite them,” Vannurden said. “One of the main things I learned last year what that the things you do and say actually can have an impact on people. If you have the guts to put yourself in the spotlight, you can change someone’s life.”

The weekend event featured several speakers including keynote Jessie Funk, who spoke at nationals last year.

Seniors Kelsey Christiansen (left) and Adrienne Bagley stopped to make use of a prop Saturday morning while attending the three-day MASC/MAHS leadership convention April 9-11 at the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School.

Funk, who had followed her dream and achieved numerous record deals, gave up her fame for one simple thing—to be happy.

“If you’re not happy, what’s the point? You can have the best status of living but without happiness nothing matters,” said Vannurden.

In addition to the empowerment speeches, students attended break-out sessions, participated in an activity night and dance and attended an awards banquet at River’s Edge Convention Center where scholarships were presented to seniors.

A strong returning lineup

by ANNA SALDANA STAFF WRITER

Five starters are returning to the Storm baseball lineup this spring and the team is well-rounded going into the season.

“We are excited as a coaching staff to have a core group of kids who are committed to our program’s values and leading the newcomers in positive ways,” said Coach Jeff Hille, who is in his eighth year as a baseball coach.

Five members of the team will be competing for starting pitching positions throughout the season – Noah Klinefelter, Cordell Lazer, Brady Posch, Lucas Bentrud and Tyler Kranz. Other members of the team include Eric

Burski and Logan Siemers as catchers, Lazer and Cole Fuecker on 3rd base, Matt Johnson on shortstop, Bjorn Hanson on 2nd base, Bentrud and Posch on 1st base, Zach Fuecker, Anthony Burton and Josh Hovland in the outÀeld and Ethan Bengtson rotating between shortstop, 2nd base and outÀeld.

“I’m excited for our group of committed seniors to lead our program in a positive direction on the Àeld, inside the classroom and in the community,” Hille said.

Throughout the Àrst weeks of practice, Hille has seen decent team speed for the most part. The kids and coaches are working to be a team that hits for average throughout the lineup. Other goals for

the team this season is to win the conference and be strong for section playoff contention.

“Our conference seems to be very balance with many potential contenders,” Hille said. “Brainerd and Rocori are usually in the upper third of the league and are disciplined teams.”

Hille’s keys to success for the team include throwing a 2 to 1, strike to ball ratio as a pitching staff, running the bases intelligently and making mental adjustments efÀciently within practice and games.

The team’s strategies worked well for them against their game on Monday against Rogers, bringing home a 7-6 win. The team also faced Becker on Tuesday.

Donovan, Colgan win first match

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Gage Donovan and Ben Colgan competed in the No. 2 doubles and pulled off their Àrst wins of the season, winning the matches 7-5 and 6-2.

Cooper Grau-Firkus and Creed Studenski lost in their No. 4 doubles match 8-0.

Coach Jamie Hatlestad feels that it was a good meet to start the season out and is conÀdent in the team going forward.

“We have some great leadership from the older players, which is great to see,” Hatlestad said. “They are providing a great example for the two seventh graders on the team.”

McKinley Lain is one of the two captains on the team and is one of seven Sauk Rapids-Rice players. Other play-

ers on the team include Donovan, Colgan, Grau-Firkus, Studenski, Braedyn Leeb and Michael Neubauer.

“I’m focused on the guys getting better, rather than focusing on the wins and losses,” said Hatlestad. “I want them to compete with class and gel the two schools together well to make a team the two schools can be proud of.”

Throughout the season, the team will face some tough competition. One of the toughest competitors is Willmar and the two teams will go head-to-head on Apr. 28. Alexandria is another team Hatlestad is expecting to be tough and they face each other on May 3.

The team’s next match is on April 14 against Sartell.

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Track teams sprint past Apollo

by ANNA SALDANA STAFF WRITER

The Storm track team had their Àrst home meet on Tuesday at Sauk RapidsRice Middle School. Despite the cool wind and low temps, the team overpowered their opponents from St. Cloud Apollo.

The girls team won 10561 and the boys team won 88-85.

Mikayla Zaske and Brooke Strand took Àrst and second place respectively in the 100 meter hurdles and Matraca Conarro took Àrst in the 100 meter dash, among several other top three Ànishes for the team “Despite the frigid weather, the teams did very well and we as coaches are happy with their

performances,” said Loren Finlayson, the girls’ head coach.

Results from the meet: Girls 4 x 800 MR – SRR 1st 11:18.07 Boys 4 x 800 MR – SRR 2nd 9:49.60.

Girls 100 M hurdles – Zaske 1st 18.91; Strand 2nd 18.97; Olivia Krepp 7th 21.68; Brooke Helget 10th 22.28; Isabella Molesky 13th 22.77; Bailey Olson 14th 22.93.

Boys 110 M hurdles – Spencer Weber 5th 22.97.

Girls 100 M Dash – Conarro 1st 14.40; Jessica Weber 2nd 14.59; Anna Scapanski 5th 15.09; Anna Hasbrouck 6th 15.35; Bergen Henkemeyer 7th 15.40; Kjerstin Haeny 8th 15.86; Brooke Butkowski 11th 16.41; Natalie Ethen 12th 16.93; Katherine Erickson 13th 17.32; Sydni Ross 15th 17.86; Zayah Davis 16th 18.16.

Boys 100 M Dash – Mitchel Peterson 4th 12.62; Cole Ritten 6th 12.68; Dalton Holmes 9th 12.75; Daunte Keller 11th 12.80; Granite Moliga 14th 13.20; De Andre Jackson 16th 13.49; Chase Timlin 17th 13.60; Jacob Bokelman 18th 13.66; GrifÀn Doherty 19th 13.70; Carter Shimabukuro-King 21st 13.80; Cole Roach 22nd 13.94; Dylan Keller 23rd 13.95; Stephen Erickson 24th 14.00; Brady Zylla 25th 14.55; Jared Taylor 15.38; Matthew Alf 28th 16.16; Noah Stangl 29th 16.60.

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Roman Hanson competed in the discus throw in Tuesday’s meet against Apollo.

MR – SRR 1st 2:02.73 and 2nd 2:13.69.

Boys 4 x 200 MR – SRR 1st 1:52.84.

Girls 1600 M run – Kayleen Martins 2nd 6:09.00; Emma Mader 3rd 6:23.00.

Boys 1600 M run – Ian Galligan 2nd 5:00.29; Logan Leavey 3rd 5:06.70; Samuel Ringger 4th 5:13.50; Alex Torvik 5th 5:15.54; Abdirahman Ibrahim 8th 5:41.81; Dakotah Johnson 9th 6:11.92; Jordan Baron 10th 6:12.38.

Girls 4 x 100 MR – SRR 2nd 57.52 and 3rd 1:08.15.

Boys 4 x 100 MR – SRR 2nd 49.25, 3rd 53.84 and 4th 57.91.

Girls 400 M Dash – Kristen Petron 1st 1:06.58; Tessa Fernholz 2nd 1:07.85; Ethen 4th 1:19.73.

Boys 400 M Dash – Daunte Keller 2nd 58.59; Danny Sertich 3rd 58.83; Tyler Och 5th 1:01.19; Marcus Santillana 6th 1:01.78; Leavey 7th 1:02.47; Jerad Schlichting 9th 1:05.68; Andrew Syvertson 10th 1:07.63; Shawn Schoen 12th 1:08.10; Taylor 13th 1:19.14; Stangl 14th 1:21.24.

Girls 300 M hurdles – Zaske 1st 55.63; Strand 3rd 58.38; Jocelyn Thorson 5th 1:00.44; Olson 11th 1:07.56; Krepp 12th 1:07.82; Helget 13th 1:07.91.

Boys 300 M hurdles – Peterson 5th 50.88; Richard Carriveau 6th 52.61; Weber 7th 54.03.

Girls 800 M run – Julia Severson 1st 2:44.00; Martins 2nd 2:46.50; Marissa Leeb 3rd 3:17.55.

Boys 800 M run – Torvik 1st 2:26.48; Chainagubo Balo 2nd 2:27.40; Doherty 4th 2:38.80; Morgan Freese 6th 2:47.69; Schoen 7th 2:54.01.

Girls 200 M dash – Conarro 1st 29.29; Petron 2nd 29.98; Scapanski 4th 30.83; Haeny 7th 32.36.

Boys 200 M dash – Holmes 7th 26.88; Och 8th 26.89; Timlin 11th 27.86; Syvertson 12th 27.98; Creedence McDermond 13th 28.36; Baron 14th 28.55; Roach 15th 28.78; Dylan Keller 16th 28.99; S. Erickson 17th 29.42; Weber 18th 29.56; Taylor 20th 33.51; Stangl 21st 34.56.

Girls 3200 M run – Paige Sunstrom 1st 12:18.74.

Boys 3200 M run – Ringger 1st 11:55.74; Leavey 2nd 11:55.79;

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Kayleen Martins curves her back to make it around the pole in the high jump routine.

Sertich 3rd 11:55.80; Schlichting 4th 12:06.50.

Girls 4 x 400 MR – SRR 1st 4:51.24 and 2nd 5:19.25.

Boys 4 x 400 MR – SRR 1st 3:58.01, 2nd 4:25.00 and 3rd 4:39.52.

Girls Shot Put – Victoria Thompson 1st 28-01.75; Abby Walsh 4th 2408.50; Helget 6th 22-03.25; Paige Folkerts 7th 21-06.25; Amber Eisenschenk 10th 15-08.50; Grace Eigen 11th 14-05.25.

Boys Shot Put – McDermond 1st 39-06.50; Ian Hayes 2nd 39-03.00; Carriveau 3rd 38-03.25; Hunter Branson 5th 31-11.50; Syvertson 6th 30-10.50; Alf 11th 23-06.00; Roman Hanson 12th 22-11.50.

Girls Discus Throw – Walsh 2nd 72-01; Thompson 3rd 70-05; Folkerts 5th 52-10; Eisenschenk 6th 41-10; Eigen 7th 31-11.

Boys Discus Throw – Carriveau 1st 90-06; McDermond 2nd 87-07; Hayes 3rd 85-10; Branson 4th 7802; Hanson 7th 61-11.

Girls Long Jump – Scapanski 2nd 14-04.00; Zaske 3rd 13-06.75; Strand 4th 13-04.75; Brooke Lorentz 6th 12-11.75; Ashley Tapio 8th 11-07.00.

Boys Long Jump – Jared Timm 1st 19-05.00; Jordan Newbanks 3rd 17-06.25; Jackson 8th 14-07.25.

Girls Triple Jump – Petron 1st 3200.25.

Boys Triple Jump – Timm 1st 3903.75; Michael Marlin 2nd 3611.25; Cole Ritten 3rd 35-10.75; Shimabukuro-King 6th 35-00.50; Newbanks 7th 33-03.50.

Girls High Jump – Henkemeyer 2nd 4-05.00; Weber 3rd J4-05.00; Bailey Roscoe 4th J4-05.00;

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Leading the Saluting great accomplishments in the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School

Megan Ackerman Parents: Kevin and Lisa Ackerman Grade: Senior Accomplishment: Is one of the captains on the Sauk Rapids-Rice Softball Team.

She led the team in many offensive categories last season.

What do you like most about softball? The thing I like most about softball is being a part of a team that always has my back on and off the field.

What is your favorite thing to do on the field? My favorite thing to do on the field is to make a play that is a close call while playing third base.

Tell us about the most memorable game you’ve ever been a part of. The most memorable game I have been a part of would be last year when we played against Sartell in a double-header. We were losing our first game 4-0 during the last inning and ended up scoring five runs to win. The second game we were losing 8-6 and scored three runs in the sixth inning to take the lead and win. It was so intense and full of energy I loved it, especially the part where we never gave up and swept our rivals.

We were known as the comeback team from that day on.

What has been your favorite high school class to date? Explain.

My favorite class is Culinary because I’ve always had an interest in baking and cooking, and I enjoy eating the food we make.

Tell us about a skill you possess that most people don’t know. I went to Canada for 26 days through a program called Les Voyageurs. I had a crew of nine girls, nine packs, three canoes, three tents, and the best time of my life.

What are some words you like to live by? Take advantage of every opportunity and don’t be afraid to take chances because one never knows what the future holds.

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Fresh from the tank Four Seasons partnership one year strong

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PIERZ — When Minnesotans hear there are salt-water shrimp being farmed in the industrial park of Pierz, they’ll undoubtedly ask the question—do they taste the same?

“No,” said Four Season Shrimp Company co-owner Kevin Smude. “They taste way better.”

Smude conÀdently elaborated on the fact that the shrimp grown with his partner Joel Fischer are Àrmer and without the chemical taste of blanched and frozen store-bought shrimp.

“They’re Àrmer and you’re not getting additional Áavors. They’re fresh and they’re really good,” he said.

After breaking ground for their 6,000 square foot building just over a year ago, Fischer and Smude have a PHOTO BY NATASHA BARBER Kevin Smude, co-owner of Four Seasons Shrimp Company, tests water proÀles at the building in Pierz. Four Seasons sells few shrimp harvests under their belts and are looking farm-raised fresh shrimp to the public.

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Shrimp in the United States is a growing trend.

Americans eat an average of four pounds of shrimp a year, making it the number one consumed seafood in the nation. According to Consumer Reports, demand has increased three-fold over the last 35 years and with shrimp being a low-calorie, low-fat source of protein it will continue to rise.

Four Season Shrimp Co.’s owners grew up on dairy farms in the Lastrup area. After each serving two tours in Iraq they returned home and began looking for business ideas which would take them into retirement.

Suffering from health issues, Smude knew he wanted to Ànd an avenue which would remain easy on his body over the years.

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A sweet pastime Schmitt dabbles in maple syrup making

RICE – Jon Schmitt is a man of many talents; from gardening to beekeeping to homemade brews, Schmitt has done it all.

“My mom calls me a professional hobbyist,” Schmitt said. “I have a hobby for all seasons.”

To keep his time during the dreary days of spring, Schmitt has made maple syrup over the past nine years on his family’s 100cow dairy farm near Rice.

On March 31, he Ànished up his fourth and last batch of the season.

The interest in making maple syrup came about when Schmitt was a sophomore in high school.

“Actually, our old veterinarian gave me a book on syrup making,” Schmitt said. “I read the book and thought that it didn’t sound too hard.”

Like many of his pastimes, a method of trial and error was used to perfect the

process, along with watching several videos online.

“It really takes the fun out of things when I can’t experiment,” said Schmitt with a laugh.

In the beginning, Schmitt built his own taps – hollowing out a tree branch – and used milk jugs to collect the sap. The sap was then boiled in a turkey cooker, and the syrup was stored in quartand pint-sized mason jars.

With each season, Schmitt has improved the process by purchasing galvanized steel taps and collecting buckets. Over the years, Schmitt has built his own cookers, but recently, his uncle, Al, bought a professional-grade, continuous Áow cooker.

The new equipment allows the duo to boil 25 gallons of sap per hour. Previously, Schmitt could only boil half that amount in the same timeframe.

“This way, we can also add more sap to the batch as some of the water is boiling off,” Schmitt said.

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Jon Schmitt makes maple syrup at his home near Rice. The hobby began nine years ago and has continued to grow.

Maple syrup season begins in the early days of March, when the temperatures are above freezing during the day and fall below zero at night. During this time, the tree roots send sap up to the branches for the buds to grow, but the sap retreats to the roots as the temperatures drop to avoid shattering of the branches.

Ideally, the daytime temperature will be near 40 degrees Fahrenheit and 20 degrees Fahrenheit in the evening.

“Depending on the year and the weather, we can be tapping trees for as long as six weeks,” Schmitt said.

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“The Ànal products are very similar, except that the boxelder tree has a little different taste,” Schmitt said, “and for someone who knows syrup, you can usually tell the difference.”

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Once a day, Schmitt walks the trees, collecting the sap into an empty 275-gallon tote. When the tote is full, cooking begins.

“The next step is setting up the cooker to boil the sap,” Schmitt said. “We light a wood Àre and spend the

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eyelash. Smude “I knew and Fischer place aquaculture them in a nursery was becoming a tank which can trend, so I starthold up to 30,000 ed researching,” individuals. Over Smude said. “I the course of researched tiabout four and a lapia, cat-Àsh, half months, the trout, oysters and partners separate other ocean Àsh the shrimp into as well. Through numerous feeder my research I .HYLQ 6PXGH tanks to allow spotted a shrimp them more room farm in Indiana to reach their and thought it growth potenwas a pretty cool tial. The shrimp idea.” are fed AmeriSmude and can feed which Fischer dove includes corn, into the shrimp soy beans, Àsh waters and remeal and dissearched as much tiller grains. The as they could youngest shrimp about the indusare also fed blood try—including Joel Fischer meal to enhance where shrimp in their protein. The the United States water consists of a pulvertypically come from.

“I pretty much came to ized easily-dissolving salt the conclusion the shrimp and bio-Áoc, which replacwe get from overseas is es algae of natural habitats some pretty nasty stuff,” with beneÀcial bacteria and microorganisms, forming Smude said.

The United States im- an additional food source. ports about 94 percent of Smude and Fischer spend the shrimp sold in the coun- about Àve hours a day maintry and Smude said it’s not taining the tanks and testing always safe. In countries water salinity and bacteria overseas, shrimp are farmed proÀles. Additional hours in large non-regulated in- are spent researching and dustrial ponds where they’re educating themselves how fed waste products and giv- to get better.

“Learning how to grow en antibiotics to reduce the spread of bacteria. Howev- them and keep the water er, the antibiotics are having balanced is by far the bigadverse effects and creating gest challenge. It was farm‘superbugs’ which are trans- ers who got this going, it ported to the United States wasn’t a professor in a uniand Ànd themselves on our versity somewhere, so we’re always learning by trial and plates, he said.

Four Seasons Shrimp error and from our mentor,” Co.’s troupe is grown in a Smude said. The partner’s 21-tank, 87 degree indoor mentor, Chad Axley (who facility. When the new-born owns a similar shrimp farm shrimp arrive from Florida in Elgin, Minn.), doesn’t just they are only as big as an tell Smude what to do, but

teaches him and helps him understand the “why” of the shrimping business.

“When my tanks go south, I can now control it and Àgure out how to save them. That’s been the most rewarding. As a farmer, just like any other farmer, you’re going to lose some animals.

It’s going to happen. But you learn from that,” Smude said.

And for the most part, losing future product has been the only rough waters Four Season Shrimp Co. has faced over the past year.

“We had the water pumps go out and it actually killed some of our shrimp. If the air pumps are not working for more than an hour they’ll start dying,” Smude said.

Four Seasons has been staggering their shipments of baby shrimp, so that eventually they will be able to produce 800-1,000 pounds of shrimp each month.

Smude hopes to raise them to be between 20-25 count per pound. Eventually, the pair would like to enter into the wholesale business, but it will take another full year to perfect the harvests.

Smude said the survival rates are increasing, but that the process takes time. The company’s Àrst public sale was this past February.

“We had about 135 pounds and we sold all of it pretty much in a day. Noon to 1 p.m. was crazy. A lot of people came in and we were actually running a little behind,” Smude said.

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The Iowa good starting point Custom Rate for thinking about Survey is used custom rates, but as commonly in with other things, Minnesota as it’s good to keep a reference for track of informacustom rate tion that helps you information. to know your own Internet users costs and needs should be able By Dan Martens related to custom to Ànd it pretty work. This might University of easily by doinclude time, caMN Extension ing a search pacity such as acres for “2016 Iowa per hour, fuel use, State Custom Rates.” And I repairs, ownership and operknow in Stearns, Benton and ating costs. It could be that Morrison Counties, you’re farming or running another welcome to call the county business based on someone ofÀce for this information if else’s averages may not althat’s helpful to you. The sur- ways serve us well. vey includes a mix of people Average survey values who do custom work, people may not always cover total who hire custom work and ownership and operating people who do both. costs. University of MinAn article about the nesota Extension ag econo2016 survey says lower fuel mist Bill Lazarus outlines prices combined with slight- a process for estimating ly higher repair and labor ownership and operating cost may contribute to cus- costs in a publication called tom rates being fairly simi- “Estimated Costs for Farm lar to last year. Field size, Machinery Operations.” In Àeld conditions, rocks and using this information, it is other hazards, travel time important to consider the and other factors can also af- assumptions that are used, fect custom rates. I continue compared to your own exto hold to the notion that the perience. Lazarus has a forcustom rate survey can be a mula you can use with your

own number.

The 2016 Iowa numbers are listed as the low response, average response, and the high response.

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March weather, phenology in review most snow fell in As I write this 1965 when 51.7 (April 2) a half inch of inches of snow snow on the ground, was recorded. winds 30+ mph from That was the year the NW and wind chill Little Rock Lake in the single digits are Áooded. Not far the start of April. Defrom here (Collepressing! geville) 66 inches Back to the March review. Aver- By Jim Hovda for the month was recorded for age temperatures were Rice the area record in warmer, especially the low temperatures that were 1965.

PHENOLOGY: Notable 29.7 and 47.8 for the low and high respectively. All in all, info Àrst. THE ICE WENT temperature wise, a wimpy OUT OF LITTLE ROCK March. Several daily high LAKE ON THE AFTERtemperature records were NOON OF THE 15TH. The set in St. Cloud. There was earliest I have ever recorded. more moisture than last year The average is the middle of by about an inch. I recorded April.

The warm temperatures 1.79 inches of precipitation and only 1.9 inches of snow started nature moving in to fell. No snow blower use in a spring mode early. I’ll do March. Total precipitation the events starting at the befor the calendar year is 3.29 ginning of March. On the inches and for the snow sea- 3rd thirty plus swans were son 19.9 inches. Last year we swimming in open water on received 21.8 inches at this the lake, saw my Àrst black same time. The last two win- squirrel ever and on the 7th the Àrst 60 degree temp, the ters with nearly no snow!

LOCAL WEATHER 4th earliest. The 8th saw St. RECORDS FOR MARCH: Cloud record a temperature of Records show that March 66 degrees, a new record. The can be a month of extremes. 9th Steve Bogie reported seeIn 1910 the mercury dropped ing the Àrst Leopard Frog on to -32 degrees below zero (F) Benton Co. Rd. 2 and also obwhile in 1899 it was folks served the Àrst Red-Winged in short sleeves with a tem- Blackbird. On Friday, the perature of 81 degrees. A dif- 11th Oak Hills Golf Course ference of 113 degrees! We opens. On the 16th the Àrst received 4.53 inches of pre- Grackle visits the feeder and cipitation in 1897 while the on the 17th the Great Horned

Owl is “hooting” like crazy. In fact, I heard the owl off and on all month, sometimes during the day. On the 23rd Dr. Ray Merritt reports chipmunks active around his house. On the 25th tulips and many other early spring plants starting to push up sprouts. More of them as the month progresses.

On the 30th I heard the Northern Saw-whet Owl making its distinctive call. I’ve not heard one in many months. It makes a sound like a dirt mover’s alert horn when it is backing up.

Birds that visit our feeders include: Lots of Juncos and Blue Jays, GoldÀnches, Purple Finches, Grackles, four species of woodpeckers and many different species of ducks once the lake opened.

“Critters” include a couple of bunnies, at least one (maybe two) pocket gophers in the garden which I think I have eliminated and a chipmunk.

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A good life remembered

Kukloks recall 61 years of dairy farming

by MARK KLAPHAKE STAFF WRITER

OPOLE – In 1955, “I Love Lucy” and “The Ed Sullivan Show” were popular entertainment television shows for families across the nation; Dwight D. Eisenhower was president of the United States; and Roman Kuklok was 14 years old, helping on the farm with his father near Opole.

Unlike the others that faded away with time, the Kukloks built a career around dairying, Roman and his wife, Joyce, were recognized for their long-time career last summer through their cooperative, Sunrise Ag. “People don’t believe that I milked cows for that long, but I did,” said Roman, about dairying for 61 years.

At the time, Roman’s father purchased a Surge milking machine and from that point, the responsibility of milking became Roman’s.

Seven years later, at the age of 21, three months after his father’s passing, Roman married Joyce and took over the family farm, which included 200 acres of land and 30 milking cows.

The year was 1962, and the couple was determined to

create a simple lifestyle from dairy farming; looking back the Kukloks would not change a thing.

“If I had to do it again, I would do the same thing I did before,” Roman said, “and I would marry the same woman.”

Even though the days provided a lot of physical labor and was time-demanding, the couple embraced their chosen life together.

“The day after we got married we milked the cows,” Joyce said. “We both milked together, fed the cows together, cleaned out the barn together. We did everything together.”

Throughout the years, Roman saw the evolution of dairy farming and made changes accordingly. From milking by hand, to using a StepSaver and then installing a pipeline, each bit of technology made the Kukloks’ work more manageable and allowed them to increase their herd.

In 1984, they added onto the barn and milked 46 cows using a pipeline.

The Kukloks were also proud of the improvements they made to the farm, including building a machine shed, adding on to the barn and put-

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Over the course of the years, milk prices, too, changed. When the couple Àrst began in 1962, the price was $3 per hundredweight, but rose to $5 per hundredweight in 1971 with the implementation of a bulk tank and milkhouse.

“Time went by fast,” Roman said. “I went through everything – StepSavers, cans – I’ve seen everything.”

Roman and Joyce had Àve children that were also active on the farm while growing up.

“That’s how life goes,” Joyce said. “We worked together as a family. When there was work to be done, the kids were asked to help.”

With the children helping every day, as they aged, the couple had the opportunity to take a few vacations including visits to Alaska and Hawaii.

The trip to Hawaii brought a little bit of anxiety to the Kukloks.

“They said there was a Àre in the milkhouse. I asked where it was and they said it was in the corner behind the electrical box,” Roman said.

“But they had it under control.”

Mother Nature also provided steep challenges for the couple.

In 1988, they were forced to buy all their hay and feed because of a horriÀc drought.

“The corn looked like onions,” Joyce said. “We didn’t get any crops, there was no corn, no hay, nothing.”

In 2009, a large hailstorm took much of the Kukloks’ crop and caused severe damage to their home, breaking 16 windows.

After 61 years, and approximately 44,530 milkings, Roman’s knees have told him

PHOTO BY MARK KLAPHAKE

Joyce and Roman Kuklok were awarded a plaque from Sunrise Ag for 61 years of milking cows. They milked cows near Opole. Roman started in 1955 and the couple sold their herd last year.

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An aerial shot shows the Kuklok farm near Opole. Building a shed, harvestore and adding on to the barn were major accomplishments the couple made during their career.

it’s time to hang up the milking units.

The farm has been sold to one of the Kukloks’ son-inlaws, with the cows being sold last June. Since then, Roman continues to help on the farm with Àeldwork, and Joyce plans to garden this spring

– a hobby she has continued throughout their life on the dairy.

The Kukloks now live just a quarter-mile down the road from the home farm. It will forever provide great memories for the couple.

“I always enjoyed it on the

farm,” Joyce said. “I miss it now.”

Roman agreed.

“I’d do it again. Farming is a good life if you do it right and don’t give yourself stress,” he said. “Farming was good to us.”

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Immigration policy As the election process moves along, we continue to learn more about the candidates stand on Ag issues, especially as it relates to immigration policy.

At the Republican meeting in Wisconsin, Senator Ted Cruz was asked how he would handle the immigrant workforce that agriculture is so dependent on. His answer, “You know one of the consequences of our immigration system right now (is that) when we've got 12 million people who are here illegally, (it has the effect of) driving down wages for Americans across this country.”

As an example, Cruz talked about Arizona’s anti-immigration laws on farm labor saying that because immigrants avoided Arizona, wages for farmer workers rose 15 percent to an average of $15/hr. According to Cruz, “In the agriculture world, I think the Àrst option should be trying to Ànd American workers.

The Business of Farming by Roger Strom Ag Columnist__________ __________ Now that may mean wages come up. It may mean that we have to use more tools.

We've seen in Arizona that has happened.” Cruz added, “If American labor can’t be found, then legal immigrant labor should be the way to address that shortage.”

As a side note: In Arizona and other farm states, even with the higher wages, farmers say they still can’t Ànd American workers to do the work that immigrants are willing to do.

Ohio Governor John Kasich’s immigration plan focuses on the “guest worker program” which allows seasonal workers to work in

the United States and then return home during those times when the farmer doesn’t need the additional labor. For dairy farmers, this is a crucial issue. Unlike the fruit and vegetable farmers, dairy farmers don’t qualify for the H-2A program that allows immigrants to come to the United States legally for seasonal work. Dairy producers need help that can stay long-term. What they need is a program that would allow them to hire full-time help for up to three years… and then renew after that.

As a way for illegals to become legal, Kasich says if they haven’t committed any crimes, they should be allowed to pay any Ànes and back taxes to become legal immigrants (not citizens).

This isn’t just an issue of Ànding people to do farm work. It has the potential to greatly impact food prices… especially milk.

In a report by Texas AgriLife Research at Texas A&M University, research-

ers estimated that a total loss of immigrant labor would reduce the size the nation’s milk production by nearly a quarter and more than 7,000 dairy farms would fold.

Retail milk prices, the report said, would increase 90 percent, driving the price of a gallon of milk to approximately $6.40 a gallon.

I wonder how the candidates would respond to consumers asking why milk is over $6.00 a gallon.

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